Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Community ownership and social networks as markets

    Johannes Ernst just put me to shame by writing this blog post while sitting next to me at Elgg Camp San Francisco: […] But there’s a stronger undertone from speaker after speaker talking about their projects. It’s about how the community wants and needs to own and control their social network (instead of just merely […]

  • Back from SXSW. What an incredible week!

    It’s been an amazing week, both for me and for latakoo. I’ve only just flopped back into my apartment in Berkeley, but here are some links: On the official Box blog, Box and latakoo make video uploads faster than ever: What does scale is anything that improves your productivity by saving time, especially when it […]

  • Twitter Bootstrap is rocking my world

    We’re working on a new feature for latakoo, which will allow you to create your own niche video-sharing networks. Cool, right? What’s even cooler is that the interface is based on Bootstrap 2, a UI framework for Twitter. We’re using it as a bedrock so that the page adapts to the form factor of the […]

  • ElggCamp San Francisco

    A long time (almost three years) ago now, I worked on an open source project called Elgg, which I also co-founded. It was vastly more popular than we had anticipated – from a small start in education, the community pulled it in all kinds of amazing directions – but after almost six years working on […]