I realized  that I treated search.twitter.com the same way I treat Google to search for information.That felt so natural as if we I am searching using Google. The difference was that twitter search offers real-time data generated by everybody as opposed to Google that only searches the indexed data  available on the web. I found this real time search very powerful in terms of finding news relative to me and my precise Geo-Location. I think an integration of Google search engine with the twitter real-time conversions can offer search results that far more targeted, hence and more usable.

For the past 18 months Peerglobe Technology and rmdStudio have been collaboratively working on developing  Anahita Social Engine.

Anahita Social Engine is a social web platform based on Google Open Social that allows developers to easily build anything with a social context. You might immediately think about social networks, however social networks are just one of many examples of web applications with a social context. Other good examples are Social Intranets, Social Project Managements and many more.

In a nutshell Anahita Social Engine provides core social services out of the box such as

1. Registration & Authentication
2. User profiles
3. Privacy Controls
4. User activities  and news feed
5. Social Graphs
6. System wide messaging such as public and private message, notifications and emails

Moreover Anahita Social Engine provides Deep Integrations and many hooks for the third party application to fuse themselves into the social engine. Some of these integration points are

1. Profile Gadget Box
2. Canvas Page
3. User Activities and News feed
4. Email and Notifications
5. Requests
6. Privacy Control

In addition there are many more tools provided by the Social Engine that would let the developer to focus more on building their application and less on building supportive libraries. Some of these tools are

• Taxonomy and Folksonomy support  libraries
• Virtual File Systems - supports Local , Amazon S3 File System. It can also be extended to support any custom file systems.
• and many more

Anahita Social Engine has been built as a Joomla Extension. However it uses Nooku MVC framework (codename Koowa). Nooku is an agile MVC development framework with rich database interaction support. Nooku framework has been built by the folks at Joomlatools  who were once the core Joomla developers and the major contributors to that project. Nooku framework is installed as plug-in on Joomla and it is capable of upgrading most of the Joomla core functionality but maintaining the compatibility for the third party Joomla extensions.

At the time Anahita Social Engine is not available publicly ( public GPL release is few months away)  however we are already deploying solutions for clients, and for those who hire us, we include and distribute their names around the globe with every copy of Anahita technology which is being downloaded.

Meanwhile you can follow us for more updates on twitter at
@anahitapolis
@peerglobe
@rmdstudio

View this Slideshare to learn more about Anahita.

But most of these ideas never reach the implementation phase since the resources they require are not very realistic and at the end we, the developers, are burdened with all the analysis efforts that we have put in with those clients.

So as an adivce to small software archictect companies, don’t get side tracked by these ambitious projects and clients. Find a small niche market and provide simple and small solutions to that market.

Simple solutions require lesser cost and time to develop, therefore you as a small company will collect higher profits. The more complicated a solution get, the more time and money it requires to see the end result.

I will  try to post the pictures live as soon as we get some decent internet connection. Fatport bailed on us so we are bridging connection using a Mac. Once again Mac saved the day

So far we had 3 presentors

• Brad Badly - Started off the day with an introduction of what Joomla is, what lies ahead in the future for Joomla
• Levis Bisson - Talked about the Joomla documentation and Joomla strongest aspect, its template engine.
• Explained and gave some tips regarding the how to approach clients who require new websites.

I will posting more blogs and pictures later on today.

Instead of just playing short video clips uploaded by users, they can strike some deals with TV Networks to push some TV contents through youtube.

Every month, there are about 129 million people watch short video clips on youtube. Had youtube offered some subscription based rich contents, I would bet a good fraction of the total monthly viewers wouldn’t mind paying for those monthly afforable subscriptions since they are paying a lot more just for the basic cable.

You do the math a fraction of 129 million paying, lets say $5-$10 every month is a lot of money. I am not saying it’s the best solution but it’s definitely a start.

• Effortless document management. It’s very easy to create documents. Simply click on the new  button and fill out the document details and then attach the document file and save.

• Categorize documents by assigning them to different Joomla categories.

• Protect the documents by assigning different access levels such as public, registered and special.

• Embed documents anywhere within the articles using the special tags {docs} doc-name-1,doc-name-2 {/docs}  or embed all the documents belonging to one category by typing {docs category=”category-alias”}

• Create many documents at once by using the multiple file upload features.

You can download this extension from Joomla extension repository. If you have any questions or issues with this extension you can either post it here and I will address them or check out rmdstudio’s blog for the official RubberDoc support.

Over the weekend Rastin (rmdstudio.com) and I  made a little app that lets you create badges for your facebook pages. It’s a utility app that beats the tedious task of creating a badge yourself.

To use it you must have a facebook account (duh!) and then goto  http://pagebadge.peerglobe.com.  Add the application and after that you’ll know what to do. You can also just click on this badge to go the application site.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or feed backs that can help me improve this app.  Enjoy.

Check out the event details here or check the offical event page at  http://vancouver.joomla.ca

Thanks to everybody who attended this event. Check out Tazzu Blog to read more details about the presenters and their presentations.

I’ve uploaded the pictures from this event to the Peerglobe facebook page. These photos are taken by Amanda Abrams.

Again, thanks to our sponsors for helping with this event.

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