Month: December 2006

It’s worth checking out the comments to my last post, which include contributions from Martin Dougiamas and Christopher Mackie from the Mellon Foundation. Thanks to everyone who commented on what was a deliberately contentious post.

Alas, Elgg was unsuccessful in its bid to the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Awards for Technology Collaboration, which awarded $650,000 in prizes on Monday. I’ve got to confess that I’m a little disappointed that some of the awards included things like a $50,000 prize for translating Sakai into Catalan, and for “providing consistent internationalisation support”. […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/04/specialised-sites-and-the-problem-of-eyeballs/ One of the issues with the web’s prevailing business model is that it’s eyeball-led: sites make money largely by getting users to watch advertisements. Each advertisement view, or impression, makes a very small amount of money, so the only way to make a big profit is by getting millions upon millions of impressions a […]

BBC Click Online features Atif Sattar, a Bangladeshi student, talking about Elgg.net. (Click on the article and then ‘view the whole interview’.) We’re all really impressed here at the Curverider offices, and thank both Atif and the BBC for the exposure!