gamekits: game-making toolkits

i discovered buddypress ! which is linked to wordpress!! which is awesome and i will make updates soon.

I will also talk about tumblr…

So, here i am , talking about Buddypress which has me getting excited. Here are some key features

Buddypress

LIST OF FEATURES
Activity : RSS
Profile
Blogs ( Journal – portfolio space )
Wire ( wire posts are within the SSN, sthg like the Wall in FB)
Messages
Friends
Groups
Settings (something that should be taken out)

not yet available at the demo but will be available soon
Status Updates
Albums
Private Messaging
extended profiles

Also from the buzz going on in the forums Buddypress supports
supporting widgets
media Wiki
PHP my Admin

NOTES

Made by Automattic- Mathew Mullneweg, funding of  $29.5 million by Ny times and others

Buddypress is basically a wordpress MU,multi-user version of WordPress, the popular blog/cms tool. The aim of WPMU is to allow for one installation to spawn multiple WordPress blog instances. Basically, you can install WPMU on your server and run as many individual WordPress instances as your box can handle.

It has an excellent plugin API, as well as a whole host of quality pre-built plugins ready to download and activate. Plugins were built and used for private messaging, advanced profile management, online polls, photo management, multi-blog search and user credential management. ( this is not yet available at the demo) As each one is a separate plugin, there is no reason why site admins can’t pick and choose which components they want and don’t want. There is also no reason why additional components couldn’t be written, or other existing WordPress plugins be used alongside

Following our idea of creating a journal for the students, a member home page includes a users own personal profile front and center, their own personal “journal” as a feature of their home page, as well as private messaging functionality. That could be very useful for the mentor as well as hotline api’s in the Wellness Domain.

Moreover, on the visual part of it . ‘The theme has been designed so that colors and the logo can easily be changed. It has also been created to make use of every BuddyPress feature, theme designers can then cut and paste functionality they’d like in their own themes.’

Finally what is great is the limited credentials that allow us PRIVACY and full control : we can limit the administration functionality that a member has on their own blog. This stops them from signing up new users, deleting content they shouldn’t be, or changing the theme of their member page. I created a simple plugin that disabled the menus for these settings in the WordPress admin interface. The pages could only be accessed by site-wide administrators if needed.

HOW IT LOOKS WITH FULL FEATURES : http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-buddypress-theme/

check also Andy Peatling’s blog, and the site he has build with buddypress : http://chickspeak.com/mypage