PurpleWiki 0.94 Released

The latest release of PurpleWiki has mucho changes. The most visible is customizable look-and-feel using templates (see PurpleWiki:Templates), but there are a slew of other important changes as well.    (23X) Thanks to a growing user base (which included many folks who tested the beta code in live environments), many bugs have been eradicated. The […]

The Future of Purple: Distributed Transclusions

One of my main interests is collaborative tool interoperability. In that vein, I’ve participated in many conversations, but I’ve been actively involved in two initiatives: Purple Numbers and Identity Commons. On the surface, these two technologies solve different problems, but when you dig a bit deeper, you can actually combine the two to do some […]

Tim Bray on Purple Numbers

I’ve long been a fan of Tim Bray‘s work, and although we had never crossed paths before, I had always assumed it would be instigated by me making some comment about something he had done or written about. (A few months back, I emailed him about ballparks in the Bay Area, because we seem to […]

PurpleSlurpled Eastern Standard Tribe

The Purple Numbers meme continues to spread, this time thanks to Cory Doctorow, Trevor Smith, and our own Matt Schneider. Trevor created a version of Cory’s new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, with Purple Numbers using Matt’s PurpleSlurple. (As announced on Cory’s blog. Spotted by John Sechrest.)    (123)

Blog Backlinks Enabled on PurpleWiki

If you view the Backlinks on any of my Wiki pages, it will now display Backlinks from both the Wiki and also this blog. For example, if you view the backlinks to “DougEngelbart”, you will see a list of all of my Wiki pages and blog entries that mention Doug.    (SG) The beautiful thing […]