Month: May 2006

It’s taken a lot of work, but as you may have seen on the news blog, Elgg 0.6 final is now available to download. What’s been really awesome about this release is the input from the wider community. As the system has matured, we’ve started to see the development process really harness the power of […]

Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has a piece about the O’Reilly / Web 2.0 trademark issue that I mentioned yesterday. O’Reilly are asserting that Web 2.0 is their trademark, thereby assuring everyone they’ve well and truly jumped the shark in terms of being a name to trust in web culture. What I don’t understand […]

This is slightly depressing: a potential student, stuck in his cubicle job and desperate for the qualification he needs to get out, is hoping to pay for his MBA course by selling 10,000 3″x3″ art squares for $5 each. Best of luck to him, says I. And in other news, Tim O’Reilly has trademarked the […]

Something I’ve observed in the years I’ve been working on Elgg is the dynamic between the people who produce tools and the academics who talk about using them. Which is this: while there are mechanisms in place for an academic project to get funding to talk about using Elgg and trial it on a handful […]