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The road ahead
It's been a little while since I've updated my weblog here, although I read the 'all weblog posts' screen every day. I've had a lot of fun watching people come in, and we've now got over 500 members on this
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Elgg is a low-cost solution
I've been bad and not kept this weblog updated. (My personal weblog is over here on Apcala, another installation of the Elgg software we set up.) A week or two ago Dave posted a draft diagram of what the Elgg software will look like in the future. People
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External search
A question I'm grappling with today involves listing items on other sites with tags used on Elgg. If you click on "metadata", I ideally want to see not just other Elgg users who've been thinking about metadata, but also citations in other weblogs, on
Open sourcing, a possible re-ordering?
I'm really looking forward to open sourcing Elgg. So far the stumbling block is which license to choose - GPL is not an option as far as I'm concerned. If anyone's got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Lately I'
Tag suggestions
When you click on a keyword, some screens will now show automatic tag suggestions at the bottom. This is currently a full word search, so "photography" yields "digital photography", but not "photos" (yet).
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Getting away from it all
We've had a bit of a frenetic week here - it's been very exciting to finally add the tag functionality and see how that ties together. There's more to come, but I hope you've enjoyed playing with it as much as I&
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Ad-hoc communities
So here's a thought. By the end of today, the Elgg software will have keywords attached to files and folders. That means you'll be able to (for example) click on the keyword "social learning" and you'll find links to everybody interested in
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Elgg, Switzerland and auto-complete
I've just found two of the coolest web apps I've seen in a while. There's a little-known facility in the HTTP standard that allows a client to connect to a server and stay connected (as opposed to most web browser transactions, which are of
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Tags and everybody's weblog posts
People seem to have gotten into the keywording habit. It'll be very interesting to see how this progresses now that we've enabled keywords on weblog posts and will shortly do so on files ... Here's the almost-obligatory "random tags" page. Pretty much useless,
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Weblog keywords
Weblog posts can now be tagged with category keywords. As is the standard, keywords are comma-separated; once you've added a couple, these can be searched. For example, if you click on "elgg features" at the bottom of this post, you can see every post I'
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Book Talk
Technorati is an interesting site for exploring what's semi-ironically known as the Blogosphere; furthermore, it has tags for categorising weblogs, and an API so you can plug stuff into it. Book Talk is an interesting application that picks out the books webloggers are talking about at the moment.
Programmers needed!
To reiterate what's been said in both Dave's and the news blog, we're looking for programmers to help us develop the system. If you've got some experience with PHP, HTML and SQL and fancy helping out, please contact either of us and