APIs and data formats- August 19, 2008 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 supported data formats; including OpenDD (of course), JSON, PHP, and of course RSS. If you're putting together a mashup, you can use these views very simply. You may have noticed when you're looking at a page with a list of items on it, that...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/marcus/read/49/apis-and-data-formats Elgg is designed for social networking- August 18, 2008 Elgg 1.0 has officially left the building. As we've already announced, it comes in two flavours: a full version with lots of features pre-installed, and a core designed for you to build your own social networking application on top of. The archive for the full version is 1.43Mb - small enough to fit on a floppy disk, if anyone still used them. The core-only archive weighs in at less than 700k. Elgg is fully-featured and extremely powerful both to run as a stand-alone social network and as a...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/bwerdmuller/read/48/elgg-is-designed-for-social-networking Elgg v1.0 has left the building- August 18, 2008 We are pleased to announce that Elgg v1.0 has now left the building and is available to download in two flavours, the core engine and the full Elgg package. The core engine is for those wishing to build up their own network from the beginning, whereas the full Elgg package is the core Elgg engine plus the following plugins pre-loaded: blogs, files, pages, bookmarks, messageboard, status, TinyMCE and private messages. For more information you can check out the new elgg.org website, and if you...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/Dave/read/47/elgg-v10-has-left-the-building Summary of Elgg 1- August 14, 2008 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 thought I'd give a brief summary of just a few of them. First of all, this is possibly one of the best looking versions of Elgg ever. A lot of this is due to the efforts of our resident design guru Pete Harris, who has done a fantastic...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/marcus/read/46/summary-of-elgg-1 Elgg at SXSW- August 14, 2008 South by Southwest is one of the most exciting festivals and conferences in the world. Every year, thousands of people converge on Austin, Texas to celebrate film, music and the interactive arts. It's where services like Twitter became famous, and Silicon Valley meets digital literates from all over the world. Because this is a different sort of conference, submitted panels need to be voted on by potential attendees. The panels that people most want to see will get programmed; the others are...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/bwerdmuller/read/45/elgg-at-sxsw Help us test Elgg- August 8, 2008 Some of you have expressed interest in participating in the Elgg 1.0 development process. Here are a couple of ways you can join in and help us test the software. 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 test.elgg.org and sign up for an account. We'd love to hear your feedback, and you'll find an Elgg Feedback group there for the purpose. (Please note that we'll be blanking the...http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/bwerdmuller/read/44/help-us-test-elgg It's official: Elgg is the best social networking platform- August 4, 2008 We're pleased to announce that Elgg has been featured as the best open source social networking platform in InfoWorld's 2008 Best Of Open Source Awards. Elgg joins WordPress, which won for best blogging platform, Firefox, which won for best web browser, and MySQL, which was featured as the best database system. From the article: While Elgg lets corporations, governments, and schools quickly establish blogs, the system's collaborative features encourage building communities of users with shared..http://news.elgg.org/pg/blog/bwerdmuller/read/43/its-official-elgg-is-the-best-social-netw... |