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by benwerd 16y ago
All the criticisms about the underlying technology and business model aside: if you do nothing else, please hire a copywriter.
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The People vs George Lucas: director interview(community.thisiscentralstation.com)
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Copyright in Open Source Software – Understanding the Boundaries(ifosslr.org)
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An introduction to the Activity Streams standard(ibm.com)
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Devices and desires: why the portable device wars are a red herring(benwerd.com)
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by benwerd 16y ago
I can't speak for Harold - although we've spoken, he's never directly been involved with Elgg or me - but I'd love to. I'll drop you an email now.
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by benwerd 16y ago
Perhaps build in some kind of game dynamic that encourages discussion and analytical thinking rather than straightforward solutions?
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by benwerd 16y ago
NB: I should have mentioned that I've moved on from Elgg and EduSpaces, and am not able to speak for either project.
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by benwerd 16y ago
It's worth looking at what OpenCourseWare are doing, as well as university-centric networks like the British Open University's OpenLearn. I co-founded an educational social network called Elgg.net in 2004 (which later became Eduspaces.net w
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by benwerd 16y ago
And 70% of users would reveal their password for a bar of chocolate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm It doesn't make it ethical or right, or ultimately good for the industry.
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by benwerd 16y ago
I've never been under any illusions about Facebook's business model or intent, but the expansion of their boundaries and Zuckerberg's stance on privacy mean I feel I have to take an ideological stand. Professionally, I argue for strong acce
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by benwerd 16y ago
Whoa. I admire the chutzpah, and I definitely think aspects of PHP could use a Star Trek style reboot (albeit with less lens flare), but I also think the proposed syntax here actually makes PHP less clear. My specific issues: As others have
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So why do we need apps anyway?(benwerd.com)
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by benwerd 17y ago
This. I think the iPhone was a complete boon to the US mobile market, which was suffering and locked down. In America, the iPhone is one of the most open handsets out there. However, everywhere else, where carriers have less of an ability t
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by benwerd 17y ago
Whoops! So much for open source allowing for greater scrutiny and security. It mostly does, of course. But greater transparency also means you need excellent auditing and tracing procedures. This highlights the potential dangers, as well as
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by benwerd 17y ago
I'm not sure how healthy it is to think about people entirely in terms of goals or statistics.
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by benwerd 17y ago
For me this article boils down to this one bullet point: "The industry is finally ready to sell things that make geeks feel frustrated instead of things that make normal people feel helpless. What does this mean for geeks and our role in s
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by benwerd 17y ago
I'm not sure about the "make it a goal.." conclusion of the final paragraph, but otherwise, this is smart: waiting is part of any interaction. This especially goes for the time between their initial request and your first reply to them (whe
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by benwerd 17y ago
My two hats are conflicted: As a technology lead and entrepreneur, this is a disaster, and I'd have to ask serious questions if anyone on my team were to go anywhere near it. As a developer, LOL.
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by benwerd 17y ago
Seems like a great argument for clear, modular, well-written code to me. Sometimes you get dead ends, but that's true of evolution too. If your base is sufficiently flexible that it can tolerate significant changes, the amount of refactorin
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by benwerd 17y ago
This. The technology we have at the moment actually assists a great work-life balance. If you're spending fourteen hours a day working at the exclusion of everything else, you're simply doing it wrong. That's the long and the short of it.
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by benwerd 17y ago
I co-founded Elgg ( http://elgg.org/ ), which was started as a social environment for education. It's got a wider remit now, but is nonetheless used in a very large number of schools and universities (NB: I left the project last year to mov
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by benwerd 17y ago
Funnily enough, I was going to talk about ePub as well. A lot is now resting on it, but the format is in desperate need of an overhaul. I'm running a BarCamp in London next month and hoping to get both geeks and publishers along to discuss
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by benwerd 17y ago
Hrm. I've been talking through a decentralized social web architecture on my blog, with an eye to building an open source project later on, and had intended to use AMQP as the backbone for reliable message passing. This somewhat puts paid t
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Direct messaging in a social web architecture as an alternative to email(benwerd.com)
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Amazon are locking down publishers before the iPad hits stores(blog.intersectionpublishing.com)
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by benwerd 17y ago
Yeah; unfortunately, this seems like it might not end well.
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by benwerd 17y ago
And in another, differentiate . Build something different, or adopt a different focus; don't just be a clone.
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Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture(benwerd.com)
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Event industry loses an innovator(blog.crowdvine.com)
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