Author: Ben Werdmuller
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Communities
Communities are 3/4 the way there; a little more work tomorrow and the basics will be in place. Currently you cannot create your own community, but feel free to join Elgg Features by clicking the button next to the community name, just as you would add someone to your friends list. The button for communities…
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Podcasting in iTunes
iTunes 4.9 will support podcasting. That probably signals that the technology has gone mainstream. Elgg is, of course, a perfect podcasting platform; upload MP3 files to your file repository, tag them with a common keyword (eg “podcast”) and the RSS feed for that tag is your podcast feed. We’ve tested the system with all major…
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Weblog interfaces
This post partially serves as a test that the new post-to-weblog interface is functioning correctly, and partially as a notification that it exists. It’s part of a bigger whole and – like everything else – in alpha, but you’ll now see a “click here to post to this weblog” link on your public weblog page.…
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The road ahead
It’s been a little while since I’ve updated my weblog here, although I read the ‘all weblog posts’ screen every day. I’ve had a lot of fun watching people come in, and we’ve now got over 500 members on this installation. Speaking of installations, we’ve deliberately not mentioned Apcala much here. The division is as…