I have been looking around recently at social networkings systems, focusing on freely available ones, such as Elgg (which powers the rather lovely UnLtdWorld, and which has its proper v1.0 release out soon) and PeopleAggregator . The other option I had thought of would be to fashion something out of Drupal .
A post at Read/WriteWeb , however, has made me step back and think a little:
Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn’t require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks. With Six Apart’s recent release of Movable Type 4.2 , that revolution has begun. The new release provides DIY tools for building your own social networking platform which includes member profiles, forums, friending capabilities, rating of content, and more. WordP...
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Post Date: 2008-02-24 01:56:35
Here’s a photo I took whilst we were away in Cornwall last week - it’s almost like it’s alive! I’m about halfway through posting up the best of the 200-odd photos I took - you can find them all here .
I’m not much of a photographer and just use a simple point-and-click Sony , but when the scenery is as good as this, it’s hard to go wrong!
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Post Date: 2008-02-23 17:30:57
I’ve been playing about quite a bit with Google CSE this weekend, firstly seeing how it would work with Twitter (as mentioned here previously), and secondly now with wikis.
There is a load of great information out there on the various hosted wiki services like WikiSpaces, pbWiki, Stikipad and WetPaint to name a few. But how do you find these wikis if you want to contribute, or just to read stuff from them?
So, here’s theWikiFinder . It searches every wiki hosted at ...
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Post Date: 2008-02-23 16:35:53
I’m doing some work at the minute putting together the agenda for Tuesday’s socia media shindig in Coventry for members of the IDeA Social Media and Online Collaboration Community of Practice (…and breathe). It can be tricky keeping an eye on what it is that you want to achieve at these events, so I have put together a little template that helps me plan what we are going to do, why we’re doing it, how we are going do it, and what we all hope to get out of it....
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Post Date: 2008-02-23 14:14:03
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that while WordPress.com is probably the best place to start for beginner bloggers, it also isn’t the most customisable of environments. In other words, if you want total control of what your blog looks like, you need to host it yourself using the download from WordPress.org .
[It’s often said that you can’t run adverts on a WP.com blog. This is true, although Automattic , the company behind WP.com (and which drives the development of t...
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