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  • 8:58 am on May 24, 2010 Permalink
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    Anahita the Alpha Girl in the Social Networking Universe 

    Breakfast at the Joes

    We are celebrating the 4000 code commit and we thought it was about time to release some code to the public so all the hackers and developers out there could have a look inside the existing Anahita Social Engine version 1.0 alpha 1 codename White Angelica. You can download the installable packages here

    So here is what’s new:

    We have changed the version number from 0.9.4 to 1.0

    As an alpha release the code has been working quite well actually. It has already been tested by the Anahita partners and we have also been using it on the Anahitapolis demo for over a month now. The current release is alpha 1. Naturally it has bugs, it doesn’t have some of the features such as privacy, Access Control List, and user blocking isn’t working. Those are all fixed in the alpha 2 release that we are now working on.

    Anahita Social Engine ™ will be free as free beer

    As we have mentioned many times, we will be making Anahita Social Engine available to public for free. If you’d like to download Anahita extensions, social apps, and have your technical questions answered you can always sign up as a partner.

    All the Anahita code is accompanied by the GPL 2 license. Yes even the extensions and social apps. That means once you obtain a copy, you can use it anyhow you want within the terms permitted by the GPL2 license. You can read the source code, modify it, and use it as many time as you wish for your own projects or client projects.

    Please don’t send us your support questions

    That is what the Anahita partner’s plan is for :)

    Comments? Questions about the Project?

    You are more than welcome to post them here. Comments are moderated especially if there are no real name, email, and website url are provided by the author.

    Please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @anahitapolis and if you are coming from the Joomla Community, you can join the Anahita Social Engine Fan Club here on the Joomla.org website.

     

    • Peter Armenti 10:17 am on May 24, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations to all of Rastin, Arash, and the Anahita Tribe. It was just a couple of weeks ago I accidentally stumbled upon Anahita and I’m so glad I did. Great work and I do believe I’ll be committing myself to Anahita shortly. Best of luck.

    • Rastin Mehr 11:33 am on May 24, 2010 Permalink

      Thank you so much Peter we would love to have you in the Anahita tribe :D

    • Nick Balestra 11:58 am on May 24, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin, @Ash, @rmdstudio & @peerglobe congrats guys, today Anahita aka white angelica, is traveling freely on the web, has been such an honor and a pleasure for me to see her growing, and now seing her making her first steps, keep up guys and the tribe will be always with you!

      @peter thanks for your feedback and commitment and would love to see you in the tribe too!

    • Jen Duguay 12:18 pm on May 24, 2010 Permalink

      This is great news – you have worked so hard. It’s fun to be celebrating these milestones with you – this is a biggie! Congratulations everyone! :)

    • Rastin Mehr 12:04 am on May 25, 2010 Permalink

      @Nick thank you so much for all the help, support, and providing us with translation files. You folks at the Beyounic are simply amazing.

      @Jen – Thank you :) I can’t wait till we relaunch Tazzu.com using the Anahita Social Engine.

    • Flavio Copes 2:23 am on May 25, 2010 Permalink

      Wow great news! Thanks for your hard work, it will be awesome to read your code and learn more about how Nooku Framework can be used!

    • Vishwash Gaur 4:55 am on May 25, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations to Rastin, Arash, and everyone else involved .

      It is really a pleasure to see Anahita as Angelica wearing GPL2 cloths :) – I am amazed with Alpha 1 release and really look forward for more from you people in Alpha 2.

      Good luck for your endeavors!

    • Rastin Mehr 1:58 pm on May 25, 2010 Permalink

      @Flavio – thank you! let us know what you think of the code :)

      @Vishwash – thank you so much. Yes we think social web and GPL go hand in hand. That is why all Anahita code even those offered via paid plans are also GPL.

    • Cynthia 4:40 pm on May 26, 2010 Permalink

      Congratulations! It truly is exciting to see Anahita arrive at the first Alpha release. You are doing a beautiful job with her. I expect she will be very well received. :)

      Cyndy

    • t. 12:24 am on May 27, 2010 Permalink

      Hi there! There will be an updater from alpha 1 to later versions?
      tia

    • Rastin Mehr 12:36 am on May 27, 2010 Permalink

      @Cynthia thank you so much. She is experiencing a healthy and natural growth. We’re looking forward to many social web solutions in the future that are developed using the Anahita framework and design philosophy.

    • Rastin Mehr 12:38 am on May 27, 2010 Permalink

      @t. nothing that you can easily install and upgrade for this release. We don’t recommend using the alpha 1 for any production sites. There will be easy migration tools for the Beta releases of Anahita.

    • Helio 4:59 am on May 29, 2010 Permalink

      Hi Guys,

      I think, no no, I’m sure this is the most exciting news in the Joomla world since long time ago, I think maybe even more then Joomla 1.6 :)

      Anahita will propel Joomla to a whole new level. Thank you guys to make Joomla world so exciting :)

      I’m just installing Anahita, I’m so excited to see it working :)

      Keep going with the great work guys.

      Cheers

    • Charl Laas 2:34 pm on June 2, 2010 Permalink

      Hi Guys.

      Congrats on the Alpha release. I’ve been waiting for the public release for some time, can’t wait to try it out on my sites!

      Will you be releasing some instructions on how to set up Anahita?
      Also will you list it with JED. I’ll def give it a good review!

      Keep up the good work.

    • Rastin Mehr 11:39 am on June 6, 2010 Permalink

      @Charl – thank you so much. If you wanted to also check out the demo website please feel free to contact us. We will be listing the Anahita Social Engine on the JED once the code is at least in the Beta stage.

  • 2:27 am on May 5, 2010 Permalink
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    Officially Out of the realm of the old architecture 

    A while ago we have released the Anahita Social Engine ™ 0.9.4 to the tribe of partners. The new social engine code has been rewritten from ground up based on a Nodes-Graphs-Stories architecture and domain driven design. We are happy to announce that 2 of the main social applications – Anahita Social ™ Photos and Anahita Social ™ Discussions – have also been rewritten based on the new framework and platform and we are now officially done with the old code and looking forward to build all the upcoming extensions and social apps based on the new Anahita Social Engine ™ architecture.

    Anahita Social ™ Photos - Album View

    Our hard work is already paying off. Now it takes way less code to develop social apps and the written code is even more organized and easier to maintain. It is indeed a lot of fun developing social apps using Anahita and Nooku Frameworks!

    (More …)

     

    • MarcoBarbosa 3:04 am on May 5, 2010 Permalink

      Amazing.

      So promissing !

      2010 is getting more and more exciting

    • Gio 3:11 am on May 5, 2010 Permalink

      Awesome!! When we can aspect the 0.9.5 stable release?

    • Rastin Mehr 3:28 am on May 5, 2010 Permalink

      @Marco @Gio thank you gentlemen! Yes that is the goal.

      @Gio – I don’t want to put out a release date, because people will take it as a promise. But soon. 0.9.5 is really about polishing 0.9.4 and having some of the essential social apps in place so we can all launch our social networking projects :)

    • James 2:47 am on May 7, 2010 Permalink

      Super update as always, really looking forward to this 0.9.5 release, promises to really be a powerful piece of kit for the joomla world.

    • Rastin Mehr 2:16 am on May 8, 2010 Permalink

      thank you @James :)

    • Josh 4:14 pm on May 9, 2010 Permalink

      when are we going to get a public beta????

    • Peter Armenti 5:25 pm on May 9, 2010 Permalink

      in what time period do you guess that the actual release of anahita will be? At that time what license will it be? Open GPL? I don’t know if I’m reading out of date information on stuff from ’07 ’08 – has your overall direction changed since then?

    • Rastin Mehr 1:33 am on May 10, 2010 Permalink

      @Josh @Peter I wouldn’t want to put out any actual release data because people by mistake that that as a promise. What I can tell you that it is unlikely that the next release – 0.9.5 – take as long as the 0.9.4 did (4-5 months). That is because we rewrote the 0.9.4 from ground up. For 0.9.5 we are polishing the code and building based on what we have already developed. It is in our interest to have everything ready yesterday! but good software development takes time and patience.

      Anahita Social Engine and all the related extensions and social applications will be distributed under the GPL2 license.

      All Anahita code is “free as free liberty” but NOT everything will be “free as free beer”. We will only be making the Anahita Social Engine framework and platform available for free download. In order to obtain Anahita extensions, social apps, and other service you are required to sign up as one of the paid membership plans. Currently the partners tribe is one option.

      “I don’t know if I’m reading out of date information on stuff from ‘07 ‘08″

      Where are you reading those information from?

      “has your overall direction changed since then?”

      What change are we talking about? Since 5 months ago only the Anahita software architecture has changed, but the overall vision has been the same.

    • Brandon 2:39 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      Hey Anahita team. I want to know when we will be able to launch our own social networks and how can a become more involved in this project.

      Thanks

    • Rastin Mehr 3:13 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      @Brandon – Anahita is in alpha stage. When it is stable you can use it for production websites. If you like to obtain Anahita here is the link

    • Brandon 3:32 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin – Ok briliant. I see I have to pay 500$ per year? Is this completly necesary, can I not just sign up and get mailed when there is a stable version.

    • Rastin Mehr 3:40 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      You can follow our announcements on blog and twitter. We will be making the Anahita Social Engine for free download actually, but to receive support and access all the extensions and social apps you need to sign up for a plan.

      There is a demo that you can look at right now with real people on it. If you contact us with your first name, last name, company name and a description of what your project is about and we’ll give you an account on the demo website.

    • Brandon 4:10 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin – Ok, I have signed up. I am sorry though for leaving my company name out, I am still thinking of one and then still need to register it. Other wise I have filled out everything correctly, I think. Can’t wait to check it out.

    • Brandon 4:24 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin – Is everything correct, for me to see the demo site?

    • Rastin Mehr 4:37 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      @Brandon – yes it is fine :)

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