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There's a rumour going round that Six Apart, the owners of Movable Type, have agreed to buy LiveJournal. (Update: it's not a rumour any more; eWeek has the full story.) This is absolutely huge for a number of reasons. LiveJournal is the largest open source weblogging
I hope everyone in Elggland had a good holiday period. I've been with my family in California since mid-December, and it's been fun catching up and wryly noticing the cultural differences between here and the UK. Development is back in hand - weblog archives are enabled,
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The buttons at the bottom of the weblog screens have been turned into links, so that Firefox and Opera users can open them in new tabs. More to come ...
For the past couple of weeks, people have been complaining about random logouts. This should now be a thing of the past - if anyone is still experiencing these, please let me know. (If you're online as I'm posting this message, you may need to log
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There haven't been any updates for the past couple of days, because I'm getting ready to go to California for seven weeks. Once I'm there I'll be working on the system as ever, but I just wanted to apologise for the quiet
Via a ton of other places (not least MetaFilter and Slashdot) comes the news that Microsoft have broken into the weblogging market with MSN Spaces. {{cut}}According to the front page, the only feature that breaks out of the very standard weblogging format is the ability to upload pictures straight
Another note about something you may have missed: the friends box on the sidebar (although not the full friends screen) changes order depending on who last updated their weblog. The person who most recently updated is first, and so on, making it easy to know if your Friends Weblog has
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Dave and I are participating in a forum at Maricopa College all this week, where we'll be answering questions about Elgg and discussing our vision for the future. Meanwhile, I'm drinking not a small amount of coffee and continuing to develop the system. More features to
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I've just re-enabled system messages within Elgg. We're in the process of upgrading the templates, but within a couple of hours you should start to see acknowledgement / error messages. A couple of other things have also been fixed (for example, uploading a file without clicking the
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I'm really pleased that a number of people using Elgg have already been cooking up their own templates. In particular, Ashley Parker and Alison Wong have really done nice jobs, and have realised that it's possible to include images in your file repository in the layout
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I'd like to echo Dave's thank you to everyone who signed up for the alpha testing. After a year of thinking about the ideas involved, writing papers, thinking some more and settling down into programming it all, it's really great to see everyone using
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We're still getting the system ready at the moment. It looks like the people on our alpha test list will receive their invitation emails this evening, which will be exciting to say the least.