Author: Ben Werdmuller
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Elgg 0.7 Release Candidate 2
We just released Elgg 0.7 RC2; as ever, you can get it from over at Elgg.org. The big change for this one is a much more robust configuration panel, which wasn’t really ready for primetime in previous Elggs. You can now also use it to actually install Elgg, so you need never nose around in…
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The browser goes offline
http://theinternetispeople.com/2007/02/12/the-browser-goes-offline/ It’s interesting to see how, just as computing moved from central servers to the desktop over two decades ago, the web is moving from a network of centrally-hosted tools to being a collection of applications hosted on individual comptuers. First came Adobe Apollo, a largely Flash-based framwork built to allow cross-platform applications to be…
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Marc Canter came back at me, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
Whoops, I incurred the wrath of Marc Canter, who responded to my post singing Elgg’s praises with one entitled, coming back at Ben Werdmuller. Marc is the founder of Macromedia (formerly MacroMind, now part of Adobe), and one of the giants of modern computing, not to mention an excellent singer-songwriter, so I’ve got to confess…
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What does Elgg stand for?
I’m pleased to announce the return of the Elgg name generator.