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BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook

BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBookthe new private social?I wonder if this will create a new closed ecosystem of social networks. I can see an abundance inof employee only enterprise social networks.For all that is proprietary about Facebook, as a whole it's still open and available to the public.

Tags: Facebook, BuddyPress, open-source competitor, open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-17

BuddyPress, an open source competitor to FaceBook

At Today's WordPress Camp in San Francisco - covered in detail by ZD's Andrew Mager here - Founder Matt Mullenweg discussed impressive growth for WordPress.com and WordPress.org. Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month with 120-160 million unique visitors, including a third from heavyweight media...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blog, Blogging, BuddyPress, Facebook, Internet, Marketing, Network, Oliver Marks, Online Communications, Open Source, Social Networking, Wordpress

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Additional Resources

Twitter Friendly Links 0.4.4 (Windows)

Twitter Friendly Links plugins creates a shorter link for every blog post.Features includes easy to setup and configure,,Shows the short link in the edit post/page form together with the text you can tweet out (trimmed to 140 characters) and a link to Twitter with the predefined text,You can output the...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Link, Konstantin Kovshenin, Blogging, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Wordpress 2.7 released; jazzy like Coltrane

Wordpress 2.7 released; jazzy like ColtraneI have blogs on 2 sites, both using Wordpressand the software seems to be focused on the single blogger to a site, which is different from the places where I blog. The social networking sites will be shying away from this, as each release seems...

Tags: Blogging, Wordpress, Wordpress 2.7, Coltrane

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai’s thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...

Tags: Olympic Games, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Semantic Web, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-18