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The Wednesday message

Ben Werdmuller

16 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/16/the-wednesday-message/

A quick note from the organisation that pays the bills: The Internet is People is brought to you by Curverider Ltd, the open source web applications firm responsible for Elgg.net and the forthcoming Elgg Spaces community-in-a-box service. If there was a catchy slogan or jingle it’d probably go here, but suffice to say that Curverider provides [...]

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