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  • Rastin Mehr 3:12 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink
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    Anahita Social Networking Engine ™ alpha2 is now available to the tribe of partners 

    Working on Anahita Social Engine alpha2

    We are excited to announce that Anahita Social Engine ™ alpha2 has been released to the Anahita tribe of partners last night. This is a transition release to the alpha 3 and is not available to the public.

    This release took about 67 days to build since the release of Anahita alpha1 and about half of that time was spent on upgrading the Anahita code to use the most recent Nooku Framework 0.7 code. We are hoping as we build more API and improve the Anahita framework we can reduce the time between each release.

    I would like to thank my best friend and business partner Ash Sanieyan who did most of the work on this release. He is the genius behind implementation of Anahita ™ framework and platform. I like to think of him as the Harry Potter of programming. This project couldn’t have been possible to this degree of quality without him. The Anahita team would also like to thank Mr. Johan Janssens and the rest of the Nooku team who have worked with us to make this release possible.

    What’s new in this release?

    • Significant performance improvement due to the changes both in the framework and database model.
    • Anahita Social Engine is now using the most recent version of Nooku Framework 0.7
    • Implementation of Person Profile privacy settings and Privacy API which can be used within the Anahita Social Apps
    • Improved implementation of the Social Graphs and also ability for people to block other unwanted people.
    • Implementation of APIs that facilitate development of all kinds of Groups social apps for a social network such as: Groups, Events, Projects, Organization pages, Fan pages, etc.
    • Implementation of Node Subscriptions API. This API allows Anahita Social ™ Applications to subscribe a person to a node and notify them later when a change occurs for the node. By default the notifications are handled via Emails, however, in the future Applications can customize this by adding their own notification handler such as SMS, iPhone Push Notification and etc.

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    • Peter Armenti 3:24 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink

      Congrats.. Eager here.. trying to resist using socialengine.net for some products. Can we fast forward like a year? :)

    • Rastin Mehr 3:34 pm on August 1, 2010 Permalink

      @Peter I really think you should try any other option that you have in mind first. If they did the job you have found your match, if not you will have a good list of reasons to come and use Anahita.

    • Peter Armenti 1:48 am on August 2, 2010 Permalink

      Over the last 5+ years I’ve tried them ALL. That’s why I’m here.. and I’m a fan :) . I’m excited that anahita understands what a social network truly is and I love that joomla makes it more extensible than any other options. The forwardness of Nooku framework adds further confidence in it’s future. I’m looking for long-term projects, therefore a long term solution. I apologize if at times I may seem inpatient. It’s hard to crouch when you want to pounce :)

    • Rastin Mehr 1:40 pm on August 4, 2010 Permalink

      @peter thank you so much we are thrilled to know that you are so Interested in the Anahita project. In general our strategy is not try to convince people but rather show them all the options and opportunities that Anahita provides. From my experience our partners each have had their own list of valid reasons to use Anahita as their platform of choice, and hopefully you will find your platform of choice soon as a result of your research. You don’t have to apologize, we really enjoy reading your comments and answer them as best as we can. Thank you for all your contributions so far on the people.anahitapolis.com :)

  • 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.

  • 11:02 pm on March 10, 2010 Permalink
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    Anahita Demo Will be Updated to The 0.9.4 Release 

    Update: Demo is now using fresh code!

    In the next few days we will be updating the Anahita demo website with new version 0.9.4 code. We are quite excited since the new code base has been rewritten from ground up based on the Nodes+Graphs+Stories architecture and Domain Driven Design. We can’t wait to show it to all the people on the demo website.

    There will be bugs and broken features. We will be working round the clock to resolve those issues until the Anahita 0.9.4 is nice and stable. Your patience is highly appreciated!

     

    • Diego 1:40 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      can’t wait to see it working!!

    • James 3:44 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      Looking forward to it Rastin:) very much admire your enthusiasm – don’t let even those fire alarms slow you down:)

    • illz 8:45 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      You guys should replace the digg with a retweet button.

    • markus 4:34 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      public demo, or only for partners?

    • Rastin Mehr 4:49 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      @Diego – same here, we are still fixing little issues but pretty close.

      @James – thank you so much no fire alarms or fire trucks can stop us. The show must go on! :)

      @iLLz – good call, I’ll install a retweet and share on facebook button

      @markus – you don’t have to be a partner to see a demo, but we do have a chat with people before giving them an account. I’d rather have people in who are working on a social web project, have questions to ask about Anahita, and being a developer or leading a development team is a great plus but not mandatory.

    • steve sway 8:47 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      Great new Rastin! Are you guys still on track for a public demo at the end of this month? I am anxiously awaiting.

    • steve sway 8:48 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      If I may add, by “demo” I meant a public release.

    • Max 9:22 pm on March 11, 2010 Permalink

      Cant wait to see the v 0.9.4

    • Ben Çağrı 11:22 am on March 12, 2010 Permalink

      i cant, too… :) i’m curious about public release :) in roadmap its said 0.9.5 will likely be public edition…

      however, public have waited for months, i would like to say, thnx ;)

    • Tom GG 1:37 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink

      Awesome news guys, can’t wait.

      Am really stoked with all the effort you guys have been putting in.

    • Marvin 3:27 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink

      Nice update. Looking forward for the public release. Been watching roadmap since last year.

    • Rastin Mehr 3:41 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink

      @Steve – if we were happy with the 0.9.4 code base we might make the Anahita Social Engine ™ component available as a pre-release. Anahita Social Apps and Extensions will be available to the partners.

      @Ben – The 0.9.5 is due for late April or mid may. I have updated the roadmap.

      @Tom @Marvin @Max – thank you :)

    • Taquilla 3:43 am on March 13, 2010 Permalink

      Hello.
      I’m glad that soon. It bothers me only that my competitors at the time of waiting has made social networking site. I just hope that your product beats the possibilities of their website. On the occasion I would like to ask whether such an option would be to you when you open an account to receive a unique link to the profile, for example,
      user.zpisza.pl
      tom.zpisza.pl
      admin.zpisza.pl
      Thanks. Regards.
      I apologize for possible errors. Text translated from Polish into English

    • steve sway 1:42 am on March 15, 2010 Permalink

      It looks like the roadmap timeline for the GPL release has changed from end of March to end of April 2010. Has there been some problem that is holding up the release?

    • Rastin Mehr 11:19 am on March 15, 2010 Permalink

      @Taquilla – it is unlikely to have full support for unique urls in this release, but there will be unique url support for all the actors (people, groups, events, etc.) eventually.

      Never though of doing subdomain style unique urls. That is something we have to experiment with.

    • Rastin Mehr 11:24 am on March 15, 2010 Permalink

      @steve – “Has there been some problem that is holding up the release?”

      Not really. Considering that currently the 0.9.4 release is becoming stable, it would make sense to think it would take at least 30-45 days for the 0.9.5 if everything goes smoothly. The framework is still brand new and nobody has any past experiences that could be used for making time estimates.

      Please keep in mind that the dates on the roadmap are only goals and not promises.

    • James D! 4:55 am on March 16, 2010 Permalink

      Everything is awesome.
      I think Anahita will kick ass Jomsocial etc.

      I hope, that Anahita gives us an easily option to integrate other forum-software like phpbb3, ipb3 with Anahita.
      For Example: Clicking a Username in a Forum will link us to the profile in Anahita.

    • Rastin Mehr 12:59 am on March 17, 2010 Permalink

      @james – sure one could use the Anahita API to make it work with other discussion board applications, however one of the Anahita social apps is a discussion board that works seamlessly with the Anahita Social Engine, Events, Groups, etc.

    • steve sway 7:54 pm on March 17, 2010 Permalink

      I have a marketing suggestion for you guys. Offer existing JomSocial customers a $100 discount and I am sure you will see a lot of converts. There are many of us who were suckered into purchasing JomSocial only to discover that it is a mess. I am counting the days until I can switch over to Anahita.

    • Oscar7 7:53 am on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      “next few days” 19 days after and where is the demo ?

    • Riccardo 11:45 am on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      Very nice.
      I’m looking forward to the public release.

      In the meantime I sent an email asking if it is possible to have an account of the Anahita’s 0.9.4 demo website. :)

      I would really like to see it and maybe give some feedback. :)

    • Rastin Mehr 11:49 am on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      @Oscar7 – I know last minute details taking a bit longer

    • Rastin Mehr 1:27 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      @Riccardo – contact us with your full name and email please and I will create an account for you.

    • Diego Rojas 4:15 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      You change for four time the launch day again? (Roadmap: we are aiming for late March, no April 2010… and in april your team set new launch day to maybe may, june or july?) please be serious, you are playing with the people.

    • Rastin Mehr 4:32 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      @Diego – Good software development takes time, resources, and patience. What you see on the roadmap are goals and not promises and the list is updated according to the latest status of the project.

    • Marvin 8:07 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      Yes good development takes time. But please be good is assessing the timeframe of your goal. There are developers and businessmen who are counting on your “goals” and moving the GPL release from the roadmap month after month since October last year means that your words and roadmap can’t be relied on.

    • Rastin Mehr 9:05 pm on March 20, 2010 Permalink

      @marvin

      The Anahita Nodes+Graphs+Stories and Domain Driven Design architecture is brand new. There aren’t any other similar concepts out there. There hasn’t been any previous projects that we could base our estimates on.

      Even though Anahita is available as Joomla extensions they use very little from Joomla API and 99% of the code is written using the Anahita and Nooku framework.

      So far our estimates have been mainly based on intuition. We are still learning from the framework and platform that we have built ourselves, for example how long approximately it will take to build a social app.

      For the 0.9.4 release we have rewritten the entire codebase from ground up. After Anahita Social Engine has reasonably become stable, we also have to rewrite the essential social apps based on the new Architecture.

      @marving “There are developers and businessmen who are counting on your “goals” and moving the GPL release from the roadmap month after month since October last year means that your words and roadmap can’t be relied on.”

      At this point in time we are primarily committed to our partners and clients who have supported the Anahita project in many different ways. We are also posting the project status on our blog and twitter account for those who are interested. It is not possible to accelerate a project like this. It has to grow through it’s natural path.

      We have said it so many times: What you see on the roadmap are goals and not promises.

    • Marvin 4:01 am on March 21, 2010 Permalink

      “The Anahita Nodes+Graphs+Stories and Domain Driven Design architecture is brand new. There aren’t any other similar concepts out there.”

      Check out the Free DIY Social Network Platform: Maybe you can take some pointers and speed up the development.

      http://grou.ps/introduction.php

    • Riccardo 5:36 am on March 21, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin Mehr – thank you!
      I sent you a message through the “Contact us” form at the page “http://www.anahitapolis.com/contact”

      The message subject is titled “@Rastin Mehr: Anahita’s 0.9.4 demo website”

      Thanks again and have a great day.

    • Rastin Mehr 10:58 am on March 21, 2010 Permalink

      @marvin – Thank you so much! Groups.ps seems like a centralized hosted solution. That’s not what we are working on. Besides our challenge was more about not having the right framework and APIs to build architecture that we’ve had in mind and the only option left was to build it ourselves which is why we didn’t deliver on December 2009.

      @Riccardo – I’ll create an account for you as soon as I get to answer some of the inquiries today.

    • Riccardo 11:41 am on March 21, 2010 Permalink

      @Rastin Mehr – thank you very much! I really appreciate it!
      (take your time :) )

    • Rastin Mehr 7:07 am on March 22, 2010 Permalink

      The demo has been updated with 0.9.4 code, we will be bug squashing for the rest of the week. In the mean time I will be finishing up some blog posts that will better explain the NGS architecture and Domain Driven Design in this release.

    • szejler 10:06 am on March 23, 2010 Permalink

      Hello

      I’v been following your project since the first announcements. Working as a webdeveloper, and a economist of network goods (graphs, and other principles of social networks), so to say, im desperate to find a simple, but effective social media solution for unique networks. I was a big fan of the former blobble.net, and i was hoping, it became a commercial product, but it stucked. Anyway, i d like an account, if it is possible.

      w best regards

    • Rastin Mehr 12:47 pm on March 23, 2010 Permalink

      @szejler please feel free to drop us an email and tell us a bit about yourself and your project. I will give you an account.

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