Posts Tagged ‘ning’

BuddyPress – WordPress social networking system

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 [...]

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Ning’s Developer Platform

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 [...]

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Comparison of Facebook, Ning and Elgg

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 [...]

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