A rising star: Elgg, the content management system and social network creator
Jul 30, 2008 by Mircea Goia MyTestBox News
Elgg, the content management system and social network creator, reached the version 1.0 Beta, finally (after spending some time in the versions 0.x…).
Soon the team will announce the stable release (at least for now because I am sure that, even after the release, bugs will be found by the rest of the users – like always it happens in software development).
It seems Elgg became a rising star among open source content management software systems according to this report: http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2008OpenSourceCMSMarketSurvey.pdf
- The Elgg project has shown increasing mindshare and brand strength since inception. Recently
publishing activity and awards can only boost name recognition. The evidence shows in the social bookmarking metrics, where Elgg finished near the top of the list. Yet despite those positive signs, engagement in the blogosphere is sadly lacking — a troubling statistics given that
this system is focused on Web 2.0 social interactivity. Elgg also faces challenges in terms of developer support, though this is perhaps not yet a source of concern given the relative youth of the project.
According to that report Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal are the most used open source content management systems today (phpNuke and Mambo are the things of the past, it seems – you are a king one day and a peasant the next day if you don’t keep up with the demands. And that happened to phpNuke and Mambo – Mambo seems again has internal troubles among the team members. A new project called miaCMS spawned from Mambo.).
So, congratulations Elgg! And work harder to become a king! I wish you success!
Now, some updates from Elgg…
Elgg had one of the most powerful features from the day it was built: the access control. Whatever you create in Elgg (a blog post, an uploaded file, an element of your profile, etc.) can be restricted to as many or few people you want (very granular control).
Which is maybe one of the reasons Elgg, at the begining, started to be used as a social network creator in schools where the privacy is a big thing.
Now, in the latest version 1.0, they’ve refined that even more: creating collections of friends is easier even before. If you are not satisfied with Elgg’s individual-based access model you can swap it with something else: a roles-based access, for example.
More details about the access control and version 1.0 update on their official blog.
You probably are eager to test the new version, right? Well, hold your horses! The version 1.0 will be released to the public sometime this summer.
In the meantime you can still get older versions of Elgg CMS: 0.2 to 0.9.
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Tags: cms, content management, elgg, open-source, php, social network
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July 31st, 2008 at 3:18 am
Yes, we cannot wait!
I am wating the release since a couple of months ago. It was nice to start testing it on the beta site for developers. However the big team is to see the code
-as
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July 31st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This report was partly criticized as using e.g. the Alexa ranking as a valid indicator of the success [or the lack thereof] of the CMS in question. And I do agree with it. Probably a lot of WP blogs run by individuals are the equivalent of just one large project using Joomla or Drupal.
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December 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Parabéns pelo Post..
Eu estou buscando pessoas interessadas em estudar o Elgg para criar um fórum, lista de e-mails, etc para podermos estudar essa ferramenta que pelo pouco que observei tem um potencial incrível.
Se alguém se interessar, por favor..entre em contato: kaleu.caminha@gmail.com
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