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  • 6:47 am on November 25, 2009 Permalink
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    Thank You For Presenting The Anahita Project 

    Ash and I would like to thank the Nooku and Beyounic teams for presenting the Anahita project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome and Nooku presentation. I must say nothing is more encouraging and energizing to us after long sleepless days of coding when a pack of truly awesome friends and brilliant minds spread the word for us with lots of enthusiasm half way across the planet. Ash and I feel truly blessed, appreciated and fortunate to meet and work with the Nooku (twitter: @nooku) and Beyounic (twitter: @beyounic) teams. Thank you for being so awesome :)

     

    • Mathias 7:09 am on November 25, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks for creating such a great Social engine on top of Nooku Framework. As the first people building on our framework, you guys have given us so much insight in how we could make it better. That is an experience money can’t buy.

    • Nick & The Beyounic Team 8:11 am on November 25, 2009 Permalink

      Thanks to everybody for the gr8 time together. For all of you we have uploaded all the picture of the 2 days:

      The Nooku + Anahita demoday in Rome : http://www.flickr.com/photos/beyounic/sets/72157622749952637/

      The JoomlaDay! Italy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beyounic/sets/72157622749867005/

      enjoy!

    • Rastin Mehr 3:13 pm on November 25, 2009 Permalink

      @Mathias – thank you for developing the Nooku Framework :) it is an amazing piece of work!

      @Nick – I wish we could have been there with you guys. I miss Roma so much. You guys have taken really nice pictures.

    • Sudoku 3:46 pm on December 2, 2009 Permalink

      Congratulations for speech on joomladay 2009 in Rome. Great project. i’m really exciting to use 1.0 :D release of Anahita.

    • Junaid Bhura 10:39 pm on December 8, 2009 Permalink

      Greetings!

      Like everyone else I can’t wait for the GPL launch either! I’ve been looking for an open source social networking solution for a while now and this is…. this is the one! Excellent interface powered by a intuitive technology. Did I dream you guys up?

  • 10:07 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink
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    Sharing and Blogging Photos on Anahita 

    We weren’t quite thrilled about our first implementation since it was behaving more like the facebook photo sharing app. I mean creating an album and uploading a list of party pictures is not exactly that exciting. Being an avid photographer and flickr addict I know that sometimes a lot of work goes into creating a great image and we want to make sure that every photograph gets all the attention that it deserve. We thought that Anahita Social ™ Photos should behave more like a blogging and expression platform for the photographers and not just an online shoe box of images.

    Anahita Social ™ Photos - photo stream

    I must say that our implementation has been partly inspired by projects such as WordPress and Flickr.com with an Anahita philosophy in mind. In order to implement the photos and albums we have actually extended the Anahita Social Engine ™ Media Nodes API and therefore all albums and individual pictures can be tagged and commented on.

    Anahita Social ™ Photos is already operating using the Amazon S3 service and of course you can easily change the settings if you wish to store all the images locally on your own server.

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    • James 11:36 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink

      I love the concept! Can’t wait to use it.

    • Jon Lackey @zuno 11:16 am on November 20, 2009 Permalink

      Looks amazing, and the interface is nice and clean. Well done.

    • Rastin Mehr 3:32 pm on November 20, 2009 Permalink

      @James @Joh Thank you :)

    • Tom 2:49 am on November 22, 2009 Permalink

      Anahita looks very polished. Not cluttered, simple but not simplistic. This is much appreciated. However, I would like to point out that what will make or break this app is the groups feature. imho this is where most of the useful functionality and interaction takes place. Photos, classifieds, maps integration and calendars are all nice, but groups are the meat and potatos. I would like to suggest you include a lot of functionality in the groups feature. Calendars are a must so groups can publish their events to everyone. A sort of mini-wiki would also be nice so groups can organize their papers. And formatting that enables pdf printing is never wrong. Moderation of group blog entries are really useful. And the ability to run more than one blog or even a sort of board inside the group would be a bonus.
      I feel you have a great app and I want to try it asap :-) Please refresh your blog often. Also, what are your plans regarding Joomla 1.6 which is not too far away now? Best of luck to you all :-)

    • Rastin Mehr 3:01 am on November 22, 2009 Permalink

      Hi Tom, thank you for the wonderful comment!

      Group feature is on the way. Not only that, all kinds of group-like features are on the way in much more flexible architecture than the other available variations in the Internet ecosystem today. We have a habit of not talking about something in public unless it has already been developed.

      So as the Anahita 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 are being released we will be explaining more on the anahitapolis blog. What you see right now is only a glimpse of what will be a truly organic architecture :)

      Regarding the features that you have mentioned I must say that your intuition is right, just wait a bit longer, good software development takes time and proper foundations. The good news is that building new features is getting simpler at every release.

      As for Joomla 1.6 we are watching the codebase and also we are in touch with the Nooku team on a daily basis. So far no comments. We haven’t modified the core of Joomla 1.5 in order to develop Anahita and I don’t see why it shouldn’t work with 1.6 either.

      Thank you so much for the kind words :)

    • Trond 8:41 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink

      Being very much desperate to see your first public release, it is certainly great to see a glimpse of what to come, here on your blog. This is very promising.

      Thank you, and keep it up!

    • Richard Feenstra 8:35 am on November 26, 2009 Permalink

      I’ve been using Jomsocial for a year now. Works good, but Anahita looks, feels sounds much better. Can’t wait to test some! Any date for a realse or beta? I sure like to test it on my 6000 members community.

      Keep up the good work!

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