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Embedded in an old interview in the Guardian with Skype's founder is a link to AltNet, which is "a secure file-sharing network where content owners promote their content with ad-words. Files can be encrypted and protected, then the rights owner decides if the files can be sold
Flock sounds interesting: a social web browser. Unfortunately it's on a private beta at the moment, but features apparently include a wysiwyg editor for posting to weblogs [1], built-in social bookmarking a la del.icio.us, and a bunch of other features as this review reveals: But it
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I posted the following article over on my personal blog but I thought I'd post it here too, because it exactly fits my vision of not only how things are going to go, but also how they should go. That goes for the Web in general and Elgg
Is technology in schools the future or just a fad? The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel talks about e-learning. (An aside: when something gets covered in local papers, does that mean it's hit the mainstream?) A brief read seems to suggest people don't know what to do with computers
It isn't perfect yet, but personal tag clouds are available at: your username So for example, mine is at http://elgg.net/bwerdmuller/tags/ and Dave's is at http://elgg.net/dtosh/tags. I'm keeping them unlinked until they're how I want
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Okay, so I was probably overoptimistic about the personal tag clouds and geographic details, but this week they will definitely appear. I'm also seriously looking at WebDAV - the ability to mount your file repository as a drive is incredibly attractive. Shouldn't be too hard to
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Around the corner from my office they're holding the Moodle Moot 2005 - the UK & Ireland Moodle conference. I wonder if there are any Elgg users present?
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Hidden away in this Guardian article is a mention of one of the Wikimedia Foundation's upcoming projects post-Wikipedia: a free, online curriculum stretching from kindergarten to university. I know about WikiBooks, but this ounds like something more - I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for
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I'm building a 'recent activity' page that will allow you to view activity on your account performed by other users - for example comments left on weblog posts, friends and unfriends. I'm also going to build a personal 'tag cloud' page, which
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Elgg currently outputs some very simply DOT code at elgg.net/_dotty. I originally had the script include the "news" user, which most people have retained on their friends list, which yielded the following friendship diagram: {{file:1294}} I've since removed it, and the results -
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Dave's been doing a great job importing some cool themes and getting the software ready for internationalisation. Neither Dave nor I speak anything other than English, but we've got a development installation running in a delightful shade of Babelfish French. Once we've got the
Worth reading if you have any interest in Elgg specifically or learning software in general: What is Elgg?