Month: February 2005

  • 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’ve enjoyed building it. I’m going to be in Granada, Spain for a week […]

  • 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 it, everybody who likes or dislikes it, every available weblog post about it […]

  • 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 the form connect – request – download – disconnect). This has […]

  • 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, but fun. Oh, and another undocumented feature which some of you might […]