BuddyPress is a multiuser Wordpress install with a set of plugins that add a ton of social functionality. Things like private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and such. It is basically your own social network in a box. Very interesting. I haven’t played with it much but I intend to do so. There is a lot of potential here.
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Google’s Friend Connect is now open to all web sites. The post I’ve linked to then asks the question – who will control on-line identity? and frames the answer in a competition between Facebook Connect and OpenID.
I’ve got a feeling both will be coexisting for a while. My tendency is to favor open over closed – yet I can’t ignore the behemoth that is facebook. We’ll see what happens.
On a related note, I pulled the first Facebook Connect plugin that I had tried. Didn’t care for the way it was layed out or looked. I’ll be trying the second soon. Maybe this next week.
Do you use instant messaging? I do. In fact I have to be on it sometimes for work. It’s a nice way to talk with people without having to call or fill up the old inbox. I don’t think it can replace walking on over to someones desk – but it is handy when that level of interaction isn’t necessary or possible.
Well yesterday I ran across a site, imified which basically provides a set of plugins so that you can use your instant message client (that’d be pidgin for me) for all kinds of stuff. One cool thing I’ve already messed with is blogging through IM. Now – that doesn’t make a ton of sense when I’m sitting at a pc with an internet connection – but since I have an IM client on my phone – it opens up some nice possibilities. It is probably something I’ll use when I’m in Hungary.
What looks like a nice match up for this technology is Remember the Milk. I just signed up for RTM – so I’ll have to see if it works for me or not – but being able to use instant message with it makes it much more useful right off the bat. How did people function before the internet?
