Author: Ben Werdmuller

This makes me really, really want a Nintendo Wii. Now, if we could network together console users, no matter whether they were using a Wii, an Xbox, a PS3, etc?

Steve O’Hear featured Explode in his excellent Social Web blog last night, Techcrunch followed, and our user figures are rocketing. It’s very gratifying to see, although humbling that after three years of working on an open source social networking framework with all the trimmings, something this simple immediately eclipses it in publicity and popularity. There…

The eagle-eyed among you will have seen a new widget appear at the bottom of Dave and my sidebars. We’ve been playing with a new service (okay, okay, hack), based on the Elgg framework, that explodes the social networking paradigm and allows you to list your friends wherever they might be. So we’ve called it…

We’ve been spending all day populating the shiny new Elgg documentation page over on Elgg.org. This is a MediaWiki integration, which represents one of the wiki choices available to Elgg users. The other one is Nathan Garrett’s wiki plugin, which we’re going to roll out site-wide over here at Elgg.net. Because it’s integrated, anyone who’s…