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4:41:56 PM    

phpBB-php Bulletin Board

Got this from a link from Marc's Voice that pointed to SemText, so I tracked down the root technology, which is phpBB. The following blurb is from their website.

What is phpBB?

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

Who are phpBB?

phpBB are a group of individuals based internationally who believe in opensource software. The project has been stable since its creation in June 2000 without changes in licencing, leadership or corporate associations. Our goals remain unchanged and clear, to continue developing and supporting a stable, free, opensource forum system.

Key Features

1:34:15 PM    

Anything Marc likes I check out, Anything Danny Ayers likes - I check out.

So I just signed up for SemText.  Here we go - I wonder if it gets all hung up in Semantic kind of things - and misses teh 80'20 rule for portals, CMSs and end-user experience. If it can get the balance right - there's no limit how far it can go.

This is kind of what I was hoping Nova Spivack was doing and what Haystack was.  Well we'll see soon enough.

1:17:40 PM