Author: Ben Werdmuller

Via a ton of other places (not least MetaFilter and Slashdot) comes the news that Microsoft have broken into the weblogging market with MSN Spaces. {{cut}}According to the front page, the only feature that breaks out of the very standard weblogging format is the ability to upload pictures straight from a camera phone. I suspect, […]

Another note about something you may have missed: the friends box on the sidebar (although not the full friends screen) changes order depending on who last updated their weblog. The person who most recently updated is first, and so on, making it easy to know if your Friends Weblog has changed. Tomorrow, I hope to […]

Dave and I are participating in a forum at Maricopa College all this week, where we’ll be answering questions about Elgg and discussing our vision for the future. Meanwhile, I’m drinking not a small amount of coffee and continuing to develop the system. More features to come shortly …

I’ve just re-enabled system messages within Elgg. We’re in the process of upgrading the templates, but within a couple of hours you should start to see acknowledgement / error messages. A couple of other things have also been fixed (for example, uploading a file without clicking the copyright box has a far more sensible result).