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I've got to admit to being a bit uneasy about Microsoft's upcoming conference in Las Vegas, Mix '06. Maybe it's the chummy way the website proclaims it's a "72 hour conversation". Maybe it's the friendly but oh-so-slightly
http://www.nymag.com/news/media/15972/ An interesting graph of how the 50 most popular weblogs out in the wild link to each other. Looking at this, one gets the feeling that a side effect of web-based social networking is cliques. How can we avoid it? How does someone
http://www.campfirenow.com/ "Easy group chat for business has arrived." Not just for business, I'd wager. I've set up a test chat room to try it out: http://benwerd.campfirenow.com/room/2905
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This is all a bit experimental, but I've just asked Elgg to post any new items from my del.icio.us feed with the keyword "linklog" to my main blog. When the RSS gets grabbed later on tonight, you should see a link to Wired News.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html "Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time."
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Yahoo have released their user interface library free under the open source BSD license. Their bid to become darlings of the blogger set continues apace.
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Goodbye Skype, it was nice knowing you: the eBay-owned Voice over IP firm has agreed to cripple their software on non-Intel machines. If you log in with a PC based on an AMD chip, as many are, the number of people you can conference with is halved, for no reason
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The resource tab is one of the most powerful features in Elgg. Each resource is a feed of information from either within Elgg or elsewhere on the web, which you can view on its own or together on an aggregated page that looks a bit like a weblog. How does
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3Bubbles - another daffy Web 2.0 name - is a way to embed chat rooms in blog posts, using a small piece of code. The interface itself is AJAX-based, so you don't need any extra plugins; just the browser It's in closed beta at the
I'm writing this on the 5.32 oxford to london. Literally half the carriage - including me - is glued to their mobile phone. They're communicating, but at the same time sitting in a kind of eery silence. Is technology destroying our sense of community? Or
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Ken Yarmosh is talking about safety and MySpace. Recently there's been a bit of a media furore over the social networking site, and some parents and teachers are correspondingly worried about web technologies their children might be using at school. This, in part, means Elgg, so I thought
Web design from scratch has a good overview of current web style. I love all these pages, with perhaps the exception of LinkedIn; the site it's hosted on isn't bad either. In fact, I actually really like the style of the moment in general: big text,