So I’ve got a test BuddyPress site up and running — for testing/learning purposes only. And I like what I see. I’ll probably blow the site up and rebuild it a few times just to try out different configurations. The activity stream is a key feature, allowing people to follow actions (posting, commenting, etc) across the site and content types.
A growing issue I have with sites like Twitter and Yammer is there is one content type — regardless of your purpose. And while this keeps things simple, it also get limiting pretty fast. Every try to have a real conversation or discussion on Twitter? Or better yet ever try to reference a discussion that occurred some time (can’t quite remember when) a couple of months back? Or want to break the 140 character limit? So BuddyPress gives the live stream, providing one place to track activity, but the content can be in a format better matched to the purpose.
Still a lot of experimenting to do — more thoughts to come…
BuddyPress and WordPress MU Hosting | TMDHosting Blog
By releasing the BuddyPress pack, WordPress stepped into the social network field with almost unmet functionality and features. BuddyPress is a set of WordPress plugins and themes which extend the multi user version of WordPress with many social network features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire).
BuddyPress 1.1 released | Ramoonus.nl
# Activity streams everywhere. Activity streams can be filtered allowing for feature specific activity streams or adding an activity stream to your custom plugin.
# A new status updates feature is included in BuddyPress 1.1. Actions and filters are included to allow plugin developers to hook into any external service.
# An awesome group extension API allowing developers to easily extend groups and add completely new features.
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