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[...] The Next Social Network: WordPress - GigaOM Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to “build a social net (tags: blogging links media online socialnetworking wordpress) [...]

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[...] The Next Social Network : But those who already use WordPress probably want to build a strong and persistent online presence and identity. Plus they’re the geeky sort, with whom with the idea of a unified, distributed social network might resonate. And at least some of them are refocusing on blogging. The next hot social network might just be built out of blogs. [...]

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[...] sure what the answer is but recently there are a few posts going round suggesting the blogosphere as the ideal open social [...]

[...] tu blog como la próxima red Social Hace unos días salió en GigaOM un artículo muy interesante con ese título y que llevaba a DiSO un proyecto que me parece [...]

[...] The Next Social Network: WordPress. If I’m reading this right (and I’m reading it very quickly) this would be an opt-in thing for people already using WordPress for their blogging based on plugins and OpenID stuff. As such it’s an interesting notion given that WP is already a very open publishing thing (as opposed to the walled garden of Facebook). A rather big Hmmmm follows. via Bounder [...]

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[...] Manau, kai prisiregistruos pakankamai daug žmonių bus pakankamai įdomu naršyti po lietuvišką blogosferą tokiu būdu. Bet čia tikrai ne pabaiga. Jau ne kartą rašiau apie OpenID, tačiau OpenID garantuoja tik asmens tapatybę, bet nieko nesako apie jo patikimumą ir pan. Spėkite, kad bus kai sujungsime XFN ir OpenID. Turėsime blogais paremtą socialinį tinklą. Pvz. vieną elementarų pritaikymą įsivaizduoju spamo filtrą - jeigu žmogus priklauso tavo tinklui tai jo komentarą galima automatiškai pavirtinti (baltieji sąrašai). Ir tas sujungimas nėra tik mano išsigalvojimas - rekomenduoju paskaityti The Next Social Network: WordPress. [...]

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[...] muy interesante artículo publicado en GigaOM referente a DiSo un proyecto no menos interesante, para la construcción de una Red social [...]

[...] a fan of decentralization and distribution. My blog is where I create content, and the nexus of my social network. Of course, because the web is open, it automatically includes all these closed efforts, and [...]

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[...] WordPress could be a Social Networking Platform Chris Messina suggest that WordPress could be a Social Networking platform, while currently a publishing CMS tool. The first thing to do is look at the technographics of a community, and identify does everyone [...]

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[...] on GigaOM, Anne Zeleka talks about the next social network being WordPress, or blogs in general, and talks about the current DiSo project which is utilizing OpenID as a [...]

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[...] Malik, Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM PT Comments (0) In recent past, Anne Zelenka wrote about how WordPress could be an underpinning of a social network, an idea first postulated by Chris Messina. Of course, [...]

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We have a built an application with similar objectives. Soon we will be adding real-time communication capabilities as well. As you have noted, OpenID and OpenAuth will be th facilitating technologies.

Also as Moshe Maeir notes in the trackbacked post, traditional social network and our application will complement each other. In our view traditional SNs are like public social gathering places like bar and we view our application to be like one’s living room. Both have their roles in one’s social life.

Back to blogging? yes!

Person-centric? Hell YES!

WordPress? Nope.

What if I want to stay with Blogger or Live Journal? Same problem as with Facebook/MySpace/LinkedIn/etc… you still have to join something[WordPress] to “network”, you have to choose one product/service over another. That is NOT how we network in real life! In RL we network in various ways/medias that overlap and that seems to work on-line also… blogs, email, chat, groups, skype, etc.

You guys need to get out of the valley and go to other parts of America and the world and talk to REGULAR users. Most people when they use word press for the first time find it difficult and cumbersome , unless they are in the tech industry. It’s a great idea and a nice article, but a little dose of reality and practicality never hurt anyone.

More bad press for Facebook from India site reporting about Head hunter tactics. According to the report, potential recruiters would be checking out your profile (social networking) to make the career relevant decision.

(link)

I think Gravatar now being a part of WP also swings the decision in favor of WP.

OpenId is great idea to move close to Semantic Web World. And if WordPress can integrate it into their solution, i think it will start a wave to support it and eventually, Facebook types of business will come around and dance together.

Hello,

I just want to address something Valdis said: “you still have to join something[WordPress] to ‘network’”. The DiSo Project is working on WordPress plugins that could be installed anywhere - be it a hosted service like wordpress.com or your own server. Yes, it means knowing how to run a blog, or know someone who does.

WordPress is a starting point (not the end goal) for us because it’s easy for a moderately technical user to manage, it’s open-source, and it isn’t - life Blogger - limited to a single provider. If you have suggestions or ideas, join the group and participate.

Thanks,

–Steve
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As much as I’d love WordPress to become the next center for social activity, I think it’s a pipe dream. Of my 500+ contacts on Facebook, 10 of them know what WordPress is, and only 1 actually uses it — me.

The reason Facebook is so successful (and Myspace too) over competing services is, quite frankly, how easy they’ve made it for the average person to use. As the technorati, we ooh and aah when Facebook implements Ajax loading for photo albums; most people just think its a cool effect.

There’s a reason so many blogs get created each day — but then die a couple months (if not weeks or days) later. Most people just dont have the persistence to stick with blogging (myself included to an extent). Even as a WordPress evangelist myself (I use it for all my sites, my client sites, and I’m using WordPress MU for a new “social” project), I can’t envision a blogging platform superseding a true social network in usefulness.

I’ve defined with a few friends some project guidelines called Trustlet in september (based on a february concept): a system to allow distributed p2p social networking, platform indipendent.

A good way to make it working should be to distribute it both as a standalone service and as a WordPress integrated plugin. Maybe with OpenID for authentication and some sort of push system to allow real-time messaging (pull is slow, networking needs speed, see Twitter).

Another critical feature is trust, that should be integrated in this protocol. I was looking for integration with OpenSocial… maybe we could just use that protocol. :)

I agree that blogging and social networking are indeed a next step. However wordpress is a bit cumbersome for your average users. There are a ton of people out there that just don’t have an easy way to take advantage of this exciting technology. We have built a platform that allows the owner to have control of blogging and social networking features without having to conform. Blogging, social networking and static content should flow naturally and become as one.

BuddyPress was created for this purpose. This was started a few months back and appears almost complete. I covered this on the Social Times over a month ago:

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Chris should partner up with the creator of BuddyPress. It looks like he needs some help.

We’re also working on enabling the open social web, but trying to minimize the work an end user has to do. Our service (link) allows users to automatically rebuild their social networks on any site. Thoughts?

I have often thought “i must search out a blogging application for my Facebook profile…”

How stupid is that!

I love the way that facebook allows you to be connected to each other and follow each others movements, comments and updates but I also love the ability to write my own blog and maintain its appearance too.

MySpace is too messy and Facebook is too restrictive (which can be a good thing). WordPress is a very powerful platform and I think it could turn it’s hand to anything, given the right plugin.

Imagine if you could install a Social Networking plugin to WordPress that links you to other “friends” blogs to see their posts, comments and updates they left at other sites etc. You could even link into Flickr, del.icio.us and other sites too via RSS. Present that all on an extra “page” in your WP installation - done!

We do this as a service for clients in South Africa, and it is precisely this niché market where we fill the gap. WordPress is powerful and perfect for this purpose, but one does need a geek on call to run it full time as a serious publishing media or social network.

take a look at tumblr.com - there you can add other tumblelogs as friends…

Shame on you Chris. This is a very unoriginal ideas. You posted on your blog a while back about a little project called ChickSpeak (http://www.chickspeak.com). In your blog post (http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/07/18/wordpressmu-making-a-smart-platform-choice/) you spoke about how this project was one of the first to use WordPress as a social networking platform and encouraged the developer to open-source and share his plugins.

The project is now being developed at (link) and is open source. Shame on you for stealing Andy’s thunder! Shame on you for not choosing to contribute to this project.

Best way to progess to the Semantic Web - keep those ideas coming and let’s move forward!

As a WordPress user and developer of web sites that use web press as the backend not only for blogging but also for general content management I find this interesting because I am also ready using tools the accomplish to a degree abit not totally integrated with WordPress itself apart from the RSS feeds it generates.

One of the things I will do is run the RSS feed generated and then managed through feedburner.com through a service called Twitterfeed at Twitterfeed.com. Notification of blog post and links will show up in my Twitter account for my followers to see. I also do this with my flickr RSS feed too. It doesn’t stop their. I also pipe my Twitter posts to Facebook via the Facebook Twitter application so even more people who don’t normally follow my blog or twitter feed but are in my circle of friends with get a notification that I have written something on my blog.

I’d love to centrally manage this through my WordPress admin panel but I would also like to extent my own site to have a social networking component.

Jim,

Please back up with the “shaming”…

Andy’s work on BussyPress is awesome, and I’m hoping that we can learn from each other. But BuddyPress is focused (from my reading) on using WordPressMU (the multi-user/multi-site version that is also being used on wordpress.com) to create social networking sites - connecting users hosted within that hosted instance of WPMU+BuddyPress (someone please correct my understanding if I’m wrong).

The DiSo Project is focused around helping WordPress users (or more specifically those running their own instances of WordPress) turn that blog into the focal point of their social network participation. The DiSo plugins are intended to help enable things like social network portability and identity consolidation in a distributed way - so the network grows organically, not dependent on a particular provider.

I hope we can collaborate with Andy to be sure that the work we’re doing on DiSo will be compatible with BuddyPress as much as possible.

Sincerely,

–Steve
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Looks as though a lot of us are thinking along similar lines here. I’m very interested to see wordpress being used more for social networking, so DiSo sounds promising.

My own development work has also looked to bridge the gap between blogging and social networking, but focused on a group conversation system (using API keys to identify and authenticate members of blogging groups). Someone called it trackback on steroids, but I always wanted a system that could drive readers / traffic properly between blogs, to build identity and loyalty.

Looks like we might all end converging at a very similar point further down the line! :)