Archive for the ‘Community, Social Networking’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
BuddyPress could be a good social networking solution companion with WordPress MU and WordPress (in the future). It’s describe as “Ning in a box”. A consideration for our clients who want more control to their content than using FaceBook. Here are several videos introducing us to BuddyPress.
A very quick summary of BuddyPress.
Longer more in-depth [...]
Tags: ning, WPMU Plugin
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
On Thursday, as the world was looking to the internet for information about Michael Jackson, the internet came to a crawl. The initial assumption was that news sites simply weren’t equipped to handle the spike in traffic that such an event would cause. Even Google News flagged the surge as an automated attack. According to [...]
Tags: iframe, iframe widget, michael jackson, performance, widget
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Ning announced OpenSocial support in October 2008, and now Ning is formally opening up a developer platform. It’s in private beta and will launch in full later this month. OpenSocial is a framework pioneered by Google, primarily as a response to Facebook’s developer platform. Developers of applications can write their application once and be able [...]
Tags: ning, OpenSocial, platform
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Many people call us and ask if we can build what comes down to a social networking website. Each caller has their own interest area or special twist, but the basic elements of a social site are always present.
Since there are many ways to approach this, a first step would be to understand some of [...]
Tags: elgg, facebook, ning
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
The article by InfoWorld identifies their picks for best of open source in a variety of categories. It was part of the case we made for choosing Liferay Portal as an intranet solution and could be interesting when making other base technology choices.
Different categories will likely be interesting to different people. I’ve pulled out all [...]
Tags: awards, bossies, open source, reference
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Yesterday, there wasn’t one great presentation. The good stuff was more sprinkled through the so-so presentations.
My favorite quote from the day is “Everyone is talking about being viral. A virus is a disease. Do you want people to view your app as a disease?” I think a lot of people use the “viral” label and [...]
Tags: google, Google IO, gwt, JavaScript, OpenSocial, social
Posted in Community, Social Networking, Technology, Web Strategy | 1 Comment »
