Any comment is greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

That's all controlled by the other users' notifications settings in their settings page. They can control what they get notifications about.

Trajan, please can you be more specific... please. I have the notification running for almost everything BUT the tagging... somehow I am not getting it to work... thanks.

My options are
Notifications --> Receive notifications when actions are performed on your content [Friends/Perosnal]
Group Notifications         

How can I view more options that? 

An actual editor specifically designed to work with elgg...no.

Although to get you started on plugin development you can use the Elgg Developer Tools plugin available in the plugin repository.

Something with code completion for PHP  would probably help, Eclipse or NetBeans maybe? I don't currently use either, but I have used NetBeans in the past and had some success. 

Eclipse PHP is working great for me!

Mouse over my avatar and a blue arrow appears. Click it to get the context menu and then select "Plugins"

cash.. with your plugin.. can I rename more fields than just the "friends" (to "following")?  can i rename other fields like "group", "profile", etc?  thanks

I pointed at the plugin to demonstrate how to rename the strings. You should be able to do the same for every string in Elgg.

When I create a new book mark... where do I enter the "address/location" of the resource.. I tried to enter a website (i.e. www.google.com) as a bookmark, saved it, and then came out and click on "Visit resource" but it didn't take me to google.com...  How should the "address / location" of the resource be filled out?  Thanks.

Dan you need to add http:// before the address eg:  http://www.google.com

oh great.  thanks!

just a related question... if i want to bookmark an elgg page, photo album, etc... do I have to copy the full URL (http://......) or can I bookmark a more friendly address? 

thanks