http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick note to say that I will be giving a lightning talk at Oxford Geek Night on the 27th, talking about the Open Web. Those of you who are in the Oxford area (and are interested) are welcome to come along! http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/22/the-open-web/ Now that Elgg 1.0 is finally out of the door, I think it is time to talk a little bit about about some of the more advanced features - namely APIs and data formats! Elgg 1.0 provides a number of ways at getting at your data, including a number of natively ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/19/apis-and-data-formats/ Well.. It's been a lot of work and a long day, but I'm pleased to announce that Elgg 1.0 has officially been released! Go download, while I crack open the beer! http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/18/elgg-10-released/ With the release of the long awaited Elgg 1 platform now imminent I just thought I'd take the opportunity to go over a few of the things that make this version so cool. A lot of these things I and my colleagues have covered before in previous blog posts, but I ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/14/summary-of-elgg-1/ Folks, the panel picker for South by Southwest is now open! If you've got a moment please go vote for Elgg! http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/14/elgg-at-sxsw/ Joining the others in my team to say that we have opened up the Elgg 1.0 svn and test community! If you're a less technical user, we'd like to invite you to come into our test community. This is now open for registration, so all you need to do is visit ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/08/08/help-us-test-elgg/ Perhaps one of the most useful and unique features about Elgg 1.0 is its ability to import and export data. Initially this is accomplished via OpenDD, but we have added hooks which make it very easy to add other formats. I'm going to talk a little bit about how this works. ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/07/31/import-and-export-in-elgg-10-2/ Federated networks are the future for social networks. Realistically, nobody is going to come along any time soon to challenge the big players like Facebook. But what we can do is allow users to move themselves and their data seamlessly between niche networks, or better yet provide a way of ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/07/26/push-messaging-with-opendd/ You are probably all aware of the concept of the River in terms of social networking platforms; being able to see what your friends have been up to as a list of events - what they have been doing, who they have made their friend etc. This feature - made popular ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/07/21/syndicating-friends-activity-using-opendd/ The latest Elgg 1.0 code changes how the river works slightly from that discussed in my previous article on the subject. These changes are entirely under the hood so they'll only be noticeable to plugin writers, however it simplifies matters immeasurably and makes it possible to do some quite funky ... http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk/2008/07/18/changes-to-the-river-code/