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From the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Internet users have somewhat larger social networks than non-users. The median size of an American’s network of core and significant ties is 35. For internet users, the median network size is 37; for non-users it is 30. This survey (PDF) concentrates
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The Oxford Internet Institute website is worth a look. Their mandate is to "focus on Internet-related research and education that will shape policy and practice". Some things worth a look include: * Stop Badware, the first anti-spyware site run by a university (in fact two: Oxford and Harvard) that
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Via Om Malik, a recent survey (PDF) of key Silicon Valley players revealed that over 90% of them believed that unique technology was an important asset of start-up companies in the current market. Interesting stuff, because honestly, how much new technology is there? They say there are seven main storylines,
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Oh, and for good measure, here's an entry posted from my nokia. I'm using opera mini, which is a tiny java download and really quite fast. Much better than built in phone browsers, and free, to boot.
Pardon me while I blow our trumpet for a little while. I think this is the best release we've done, and the closest we've come to fulfilling the original vision. If you don't mind me saying, Elgg is pretty damn good web software, and
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We've released it! Click here to download Elgg 0.4 from Eduforge.
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that Elgg v0.4 hasn't been released yet; we're working on a couple of small issues to do with the wysiwyg editor, which should be resolved shortly. It does make me wonder why there isn't a wysiwyg
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The server has now been fully upgraded to Elgg version 0.4, which will be released very shortly.
About to run off, but just noticed that Jon Snow is podcasting. Best UK news, by far - nice to see them trying something new.
There's an interesting thread about RSS plagiarism surrounding a handful of blogs at the moment. The central question is whether aggregation sites (one called Top Ten Sources in particular) that reproduce content from RSS feeds in full is a violation of copyright law. Jim Moore, of Harvard Law
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There's a new standard icon for RSS feeds, adopted by both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation, so it'll be in Internet Explorer, Windows Vista, all new versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, and presumably a gazillion other places besides. Here's an explanatory blog post.
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Ooh, it also turns out that Tim Berners-Lee, he who invented the web, now works for the Decentralized Information Group at MIT, which lists as its mission: application of Semantic Web techniques to specific application domains such as life sciences research, libraries and digital repositories, and peer-to-peer social networking applications.