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Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Dipen — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:38:02 -0000

Buddypress mailing list is cold as my tin coffee cup on a dec night, code committed to svn is like if its a stand alone project off a busy developer.

Drupal is the thing to watch IMO for social networking platforms.

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Danny Ben Itzhak — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:17:14 -0000

I think that BuddyPress is the next thing.
I'm going to build a full website around it in several domains, such as:
http://www.buddypress.me/
http://www.buddypress.tv/
http://www.buddypress.mobi/
http://www.buddypress.co.uk/
and more...
anybody who can help is invited!!!

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

anarko — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:39:46 -0000

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Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:36:42 -0000

In regards to the code, is it ok to download the code and use it to try and build a site ala chickspeak or is it most likely incomplete? I'm assuming the latter since there is ongoing work at buddypress.com. Any info on when this will see a release?

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

James — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:22:13 -0000

does anyone know some big sites using the prolouge theme as a twitter clone?
iÂ´m looking for some references.

only found http://www.wazzupnow.com/ which seems to be a demosite..?

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

photographworks — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:17:52 -0000

To Bud Why+Zer
I use wordpress in both flavours (.com and .org) and I don't have a problem using it with Safari.

What bugs are you talking about?

To the men at automattic:
Best easy product out there. Keep on doing it.

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:14:47 -0000

Is there actually any details on what this social network will amount to?

I'm happy to guess, but I'd prefer to have something to read...

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:10:54 -0000

I'm not having any problems with WordPress on Firefox.

What problems are you having?

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Ned Hayes — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:10:23 -0000

Yesterday, at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, David Glazer of Google OpenSocial and Jim Benedetto of MySpace both spoke about the underlying idea of social graphs -- it all boils down to people interacting and people connecting with each other. As Glazer put it: "It's all about people."

Blogging, of course, is simply one way of folks pushing information about themselves -- and their interests -- out to the world. So the Automattic acquisition makes a ton of sense to me.

However, the whole idea of people being at the core of the next gen. of software -- is incredibly interesting to WhitePages.com. I like to think that we're about real people connecting with each other. The question we have before us, of course, is how to effectively migrate from offline connections (ie. phone number and address) to online connections like Facebook & blogging platforms -- or how to make the two ways of connecting complementary and collaborative, rather than opposed to each other.

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

dave — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:31:01 -0000

sorry, forgot the link to the google code downloads for WP users who want to try it out NOW even though buddypress is shut down:

http://code.google.com/p/bu...

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

dave — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:30:01 -0000

interesting that andy edited the google code 'open source description' recently...the code is still there (google code) it's 3 mu plugins...

for an example of a buddypress wordpress installation, check out www.chickspeak.com

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Dimitris — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:22:46 -0000

It's amazing what you can do with wordpress and plugins :)

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Andrew — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:18:12 -0000

Kristen,
Interesting that you mention Prologue. There's a big contrast between Automattic's handling of Prologue and of BuddyPress.
P was developed in house, then released into the wild. Automattic didn't want to devote a lot of its own resources to it.
BuddyPress is getting a bigger commitment of resources, having been brought in via the hire of Andy P, and having been added to the list of ongoing projects.

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Dave Trager — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:17:22 -0000

THANK YOU AUTOMATIC!!!! :)

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

tjgillies — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:59:25 -0000

I like the idea of social network via blog

Re: Automattic Assimilates BuddyPress, Moves Towards Social Networking

Bud Why+Zer — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:58:14 -0000

I just wish that WordPress would deal with the major Mac OS browser incompatibilities. It is impossible to use WordPress from Safari, and very difficult from Firefox on the Mac. Major bugs need to be fixed...