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It's an open secret that I was inspired to write the first draft for Elgg (we'll call it version 0.001) after experiences supporting and programming for one of the closed-source virtual learning environments. I felt, and still feel, that it is unfair for universities to
A full 5% of Elgg.net traffic is from Bloglines. I find that amazing for several reasons. First of all, it's great that people are using the RSS to that extent. Elgg.net got 1.2 million hits in August, so 5% isn't peanuts - and
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Google Reader: an RSS aggregator done Gmail-style. Buggy as hell, but possibly worth keeping an eye on.
Light-hearted but timely: What does Elgg stand for? It stands for using existing, well-used Internet technologies in an educational setting instead of reinventing the wheel! Oh, wait, you're wanting to know if it's an acronym? It's not. Although if you can make it into
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In reponse to this article in The Register, I sent the following to Andrew this morning: Sir, In response to your question, “how good and bad do you think it will get?”, I think the answer is: “pretty good” – even if I unconditionally agree with your assertion that Web 2.
I'd like to congratulate our advisory board member Leonard Lin and the rest of the gang at Upcoming.org for their acquisition by Yahoo. Nice one!
This is the big one: The move is expected to be part of a larger technology initiative in which Sun will help Google build a network to provide Web-based applications that will enable the companies to compete with their common rival, Microsoft Corp. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/
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Ning allows you to create your own web 2.0 widgets. Cool. I think. Or at least, fun to say. PHP developers can customise the internals as much as they like, whereas everyone else can clone other peoples' projects and customise the externals to suit their needs. Apparently this
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What is Web 2.0? A very good article (brought to my attention by Sven Edge), which lays out the essence of new-style web applications.
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We've released Elgg v0.301 in order to fix the bugs causing problems at the start of the week and add a couple of usability features. Our internationalisation isn't quite complete - it's been pointed out that on some systems the dates don'
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Have a big, pink bunny.
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Writely is a cross-browser (except Safari for some reason), AJAX, collaborative, tag-enabled wordprocessor. It's pretty fantastic from what I've seen so far, and opens the door for a pile of similar products. I would imagine we'll see a browser-based Microsoft Office within a year.