http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/ The Social Times covers news, analysis and insight pertaining to the social web. Learn how to brand yourself and your company via the social web. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5996 dianaf86 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:38:25 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5996 Wow. I just checked out the official site (<a href="http://buddypress.org/" rel="nofollow">http://buddypress.org/</a>), and it looks really interesting. I agree with Neil; I think most people would rather comment using openid and link back to their own blogs than interact solely within one blog. So I hope that BuddyPress allows you to sign up with one screen name that you could use universally, so that when you're friends with someone on one blog, you're also friends on every other blog. And you're activity from every blog (both comments and BuddyPress activity) appears on your own profile page. Having to register on each individual blogger's site would be too confusing/overwhelming. Wow. I just checked out the official site (http://buddypress.org/), and it looks really interesting. I agree with Neil; I think most people would rather comment using openid and link back to their own blogs than interact solely within one blog. So I hope that BuddyPress allows you to sign up with one screen name that you could use universally, so that when you're friends with someone on one blog, you're also friends on every other blog. And you're activity from every blog (both comments and BuddyPress activity) appears on your own profile page. Having to register on each individual blogger's site would be too confusing/overwhelming.

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5972 Neil Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:35:34 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5972 Nick, unless I'm misunderstanding BuddyPress (each BuddyPress/WordPress MU community is isolated and requires a new user profile, correct?) I imagine you're betting on something like BackType (or the handful of other apps which handle decentralized commenting) over BuddyPress. Or perhaps one of the comment infrastructure plugins, or even FB Connect(?). Afterall, this really is just about aggregating comments, rather than a must-have new profile; I think most blog commentators would be happier linking straight to their own site than a BuddyPress profile which only then leads on to their site. Nick, unless I'm misunderstanding BuddyPress (each BuddyPress/WordPress MU community is isolated and requires a new user profile, correct?) I imagine you're betting on something like BackType (or the handful of other apps which handle decentralized commenting) over BuddyPress. Or perhaps one of the comment infrastructure plugins, or even FB Connect(?). Afterall, this really is just about aggregating comments, rather than a must-have new profile; I think most blog commentators would be happier linking straight to their own site than a BuddyPress profile which only then leads on to their site.

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5526 Jim Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:52:14 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5526 Phew, the project has come a long long way since these screens were taken. Phew, the project has come a long long way since these screens were taken.

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5433 jose Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:56:42 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-5433 is this only for wordpress MU or i can install it on normal wordpress is this only for wordpress MU or i can install it on normal wordpress

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-805 When Every Site Becomes a Social Network - Covering All That's Social All the Web Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:27:47 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-805 [...] about. Matt Mullenweg has announced that he has hired Andy, the developer behind BuddyPress. I wrote about BuddyPress back in November and spoke about the easy creation of a social network for every [...] […] about. Matt Mullenweg has announced that he has hired Andy, the developer behind BuddyPress. I wrote about BuddyPress back in November and spoke about the easy creation of a social network for every […]

]]> http://www.socialtimes.com/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-119 Library clips :: Blogosphere as a distributed social network :: December :: 2007 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:34:30 +0000 http://www.socialtimes.com/wordpress/2007/11/buddy-press-turns-wordpress-into-social-network/#comment-119 [...] Also see the differences and similarities DiSo has with BuddyPress (seems like a distributed version of Ning using WordPressMU). [...] […] Also see the differences and similarities DiSo has with BuddyPress (seems like a distributed version of Ning using WordPressMU). […]

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