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  • Rastin Mehr 6:09 pm on July 17, 2011 Permalink
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    Anahita™ Todos 1.0 Birth release is now available 

    Anahita™ Todos

    That’s right we have another birth release to announce. In fact now all the social apps that we have listed on the Anahitapolis.com under the download menu have reached the birth release state. Anahita™ Todos is the most essential social app if you are doing project management on your Anahita powered social network.

    Problem with the traditional project management systems

    Many of us have been using online collaboration and project management tools for a while now. They have been a great improvement over archaic tools that people were forced into using in the corporate world. In the mean time these tools still inherit some of the bureaucracy and the hierarchal approach of the traditional work places where a centralized leadership assigns work to all the team members and makes sure that work is delivered on time according to the plan. These applications and services provide a good list of features for hiding, controlling, and literally managing everything where the goals and vision of the project are all predetermined and carefully scripted.

    If you are following a completely agile and fluid workflow, all those tools of hide and control really get on your way. There is also another problem with the traditional project management systems: they may allow collaboration amongst a limited number of people let’s say 5 or 10, however they are definitely not social! In fact they fails to perform if you are populating and consuming your to-do lists as you are moving towards the general vision of the project and they certainly won’t allow you to incorporate the wisdom of the crowds into the process of planning, building, and distributing your products and services.

    How projects are managed on Anahitapolis

    Let me give you an insight of how projects are managed on Anahitapolis. We are currently managing about 12 projects using the default Anahita™ Groups profiles and Anahita™ Photos, Discussions, Todos, and Pages installed on them.

    A Project Group on Anahitapolis

    Our premium tribe members can choose to follow the projects that they are interested in, receive story updates on their dashboards, comment on the to-do items and milestones, participate in the discussions, provide feedback, report bugs, etc. In this fashion people can observe how every milestone is reached from idea to implementation. Our project management groups are also the places that more technical and programming related questions are answered or any technical related discussions about the future releases happen.

    Anahita Todos - story update

    We don’t really  post project roadmaps. We keep a long term vision in mind while plan only for the next 2-3 weeks. Todo-lists are populated as we start developing and implementing code and as they get accomplished we close them.

    Anahita Todos | Inline editing of a to-do item

    Every time that to-do items are closed they are announced on the group’s story feed and all the followers get to see them on their dashboards.

    Can none premium members see an example too?

    Of course! The Anahita™ Todos app is available as an installable option on all the Anahitapolis people profiles. If you sign up for a basic account on Anahitapolis.com you get experiment with Anahita Todos on your profile. However this will never compare to what our premium members see on how this application is being used on our project groups in combination with the other apps such as discussions, photos, and pages. This an examples of how the total combination apps becomes greater than the sum of individual apps.

    How can we download Anahita™ Todos

    You can either go to the Anahita ™ Todos download page or if you are using the latest release of the Anahita™ Social Networking Engine, simply go to the administration back-end of your Anahita installation under Extend > Bazaar and simply install the Anahita ™ Todos by clicking on the install link.

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  • Rastin Mehr 2:11 pm on May 20, 2011 Permalink
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    Anahita ™ Connect Birth Release now available for download 

    Anahita ™ Co-Founders and Architects

    We have one more birth release for you from the wonderful sunny vancouver. Anahita ™ Connect is that wonderful social app which allows on-click sign in to your Anahita powered social network using any of the: Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn services.

    Anahita ™ Connect

    Anahita ™ Connect also allows you to broadcast your story updates to any of those 3 services not only from a person profile, but also a group profile can be linked to a twitter account.

    OAuth - Anahita

    This social app is basically the OAuth technology integration for the Anahita social networking engine. We have been using the Anahita Connect for a while on Anahitapolis and I’m telling you, we don’t think we can live without it anymore.

    Where can you download it?

    To learn more and download the Anahita ™ Connect social app go to this page.

    Please keep in mind that you have to be a Premium Tribe member to download our open source applications. If you are not a Premium member, then what are you waiting for? Sign up now

     

     

  • Rastin Mehr 4:25 pm on May 13, 2011 Permalink
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    The Dark Side of the Anahita 

    Group Profile

    Until now the Anahita Shiraz template only came with a light theme. This month I had some time to develop the dark theme for the Shiraz template as well. Use the dark theme for your gaming, fashion, artistic, or that none-vanilla subculture lifestyle social networking project that you are about to launch and let your members experience the dark side of Anahita.

    Person Profile

    Photos - Album

    Change Log

    The following is the change log for the Anahita Shiraz template 1.2 Birth Release:


    Legend:

    * -> Security Fix
    # -> Bug Fix
    $ -> Language fix or change
    + -> Addition
    ^ -> Change
    - -> Removed
    ! -> Note?>

     

    ===Version 1.1===
    ^ hardcoded url for the favicon has been removed
    ^ manifest date, author, and desicription have been updated.
    + style2.css has been added
    ^ color codes have been moved to the anahita social networking engine and apps to the style1.css file
    + preset2.png icon in the admin/presets has been added
    ^ The preset2 info has been added to the gantry.config.php as the Dark theme

    Do Update Your Shiraz Template

    If you are using the default Shiraz template on your Anahita installation do update your Shiraz template. A lot of improvements and changes have been done in the new release that are necessary for the next releases of Anahita ™, Groups, Discussions, Photos, and Connect to render properly. For example all the css color codes have been removed from the Anahita™ and applications and instead they have been added to the Shiraz template. If you don’t upgrade your Shiraz template, the next time that you will be upgrading the Anahita™ and apps a lot of the colors will be missing until you upgrade your template.

    To upgrade the Shiraz template, download the most recent copy of Anahita package from here and then go to the administration back-end of your Anahita Installation. Under Extend > Install/Uninstall select and upload your template zip file package.

    Do Update Your Anahita Templates

    If you have developed you own custom Anahita templates that are perhaps a derivative of Shiraz template, you very likely need to upgrade your css files so the next updates of Anahita social networking engine, Groups, Discussions, Photos, and Connect won’t won’t distort how your pages are rendered.

    That is because all the css color codes from the Anahita™ and the existing applications have been moved to the new Shiraz template. To get a list of CSS tags that contained color codes (or styling images) checkout the style1.css and style2.css files in the css directory of the new Shiraz template.

    What’s next?

    In the upcoming releases of Anahita Shiraz template we would like to experiment with the iPhone friendly features of the Gantry framework so we can have pages that are more user friendly for the iPhone devices.

     

    • James 11:19 pm on May 13, 2011 Permalink

      Well done guys, Shiraz is a super customizable template and im only starting to see the massive array of things that can be done with – cant wait for the mobile friendly version and more

    • Dominic 2:11 pm on May 18, 2011 Permalink

      Hmm… no mobile support yet thats a shame :( as thats a crititical MUST have before I consider Anahita…
      when you say in the upcoming release whats your eta on mobile friendly? IE my users must be able to view their profiles, post etc from their phones…
      thanks

    • Rastin Mehr 1:30 pm on May 20, 2011 Permalink

      @Dominic there will be iphone and later Android support too. Anahita Shiraz template is an ongoing project with more features and improvements with every new release. There is nothing shameful about building in stages, in fact that is something to be proud of.

      We don’t post ETAs publicly. We only announce new releases when they are ready.

  • Rastin Mehr 2:52 pm on April 6, 2011 Permalink
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    Anahita ™ Photos 1.0 Birth Release is available for download 

    Before I start, today is Vancouver’s 125th Birthday so Happy Birthday to our beautiful Vancouver the city that many great Sci-Fi TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Stargate, and X-Files were filmed here. City of coffee, sushi, and natural beauty.

    Anahita ™ Photos is now a Birth release

    This is perhaps my most favorite app in the collection of Anahita social applications. I do take a lot of pictures (Glamour, Dance, Music, and Drama) and I’ve always been inspired by platforms such as flickr, tumbler, and WordPress. One of my major pet peeves is that a lot of photo sharing services and applications out there are not really built for the visual artists who put a lot of time and effort into every individual work that they produce and instead geared towards people who upload batches of poorly shot vacation pictures into their albums.

    Anahita Photos is developed as a photo blogging and sharing social application for those who share their stories using pictures rather than words. In this application every image receives individual respect and attention.

    Anahita Photos is very versatile and it can be installed on both people and group profiles. Owners and authors can adjust the privacy settings per photograph, and it seamlessly integrates with the Anahita social networking engine. In the birth release of this social applications we have done quite a bit of optimization and usability enhancements based on the feedback we have received from the Anahitapolis members and our own observations. The following are the summary of some of the improvements:

    Improved Multiple Photo Upload Workflow

    We have improved the entire process of uploading multiple images and adding them to an existing or new album. The photo uploader is also now aware of the file size upload limit which is set by the website admin in the back-end.

    Multiple File Upload

    Select and upload a set of images files.

    Create Album

    After a batch of photos are uploaded you can create a new album to which all the newly uploaded photos will be added.

    Select Album

    Or simply select an existing album. After the photos are added to an album, then you are forwarded to the album page. It is also possible not to add the photos to any albums and skip this process all together.

    The Photo Stream

    The photo stream renders as a blog view. Photo titles and descriptions can be edited at this view. Simply click on the title or description positions and they’ll turn into editable fields. We have increased the width of the images displayed on this page to 620 pix so they look quite prominent. All the pagination is done in AJAX. The list of albums on the right column is sorted based on the last update time so every time that you add a photo to an album, the album moves to the top of the list.

    Photo Stream

     

    The Photo View

    Every photo can be commented on (and tagged in the future releases). You can edit the title or description field by simply clicking on them. They’ll turn into editable fields. A photo can belong to more than one album. The albums are listed on the right column.

    Photo View

     

    Albums View

    List of albums is displayed as a growing grid.

    Albums View

     

    The Album View

    The album view layout has been redesigned to make better use of the space. In this view you can also edit the album’s title and description by simply clicking those fields to make them editable.

    Album View

     

    Album Slideshow

    By clicking the “View Slideshow” link you can view the images within an album in a light box and navigate back and forth using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

    Remove photos from an album

    You can change the cover an album by simply dragging and dropping one of the thumbnails over the album cover area.

    Change Album Cover

    You can also select multiple images and remove them from an album.

    Edit Title

    To edit the album’s title just simply click on the title field and it becomes editable.

    Edit Description

    To edit the album’s description just simply click on the description field and it becomes editable.

    Where can we download it?

    Our Premium Tribe members can download the Anahita ™ Photos from this page.

    Not a Premium Tribe member yet?

    You can sign up here and start using one of the most advanced social networking technologies ever built in the open source world.

     

  • Rastin Mehr 3:36 am on March 8, 2011 Permalink
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    Anahita™ Groups 1.0 Birth release now available 

    This is the first birth release in the collection Anahita™ social applications and one of the most essential ones. We have been using the Anahita™ Groups for about 6 months now to provide service and support to the Anahitapolis members. The only problem was that until recently only the website administrators were able to create and maintain groups. In the 1.0 Birth release any of user types within the system, depending on the configuration, can be allowed to create their own groups, assign administrators, and maintain them.

    Anahita Groups Profile

    An Anahita™ group profile is just like a person profile except that a group represents a collection of people coming together to collaborate and stay updated in regards with a shared goal or context. A group has:

    1. an avatar
    2. identity (title, description)
    3. a story feed
    4. a social graph
    5. a collection of social application that are available within it such as (Photos, Discussions, blogs, etc.)

     

    Anahita Social Apps within a group

    Instances of applications such as discussions, photos, blogs, etc. work within group and people profiles. A group can be followed just like how a person can be followed. A group is entitled to privacy just like a person is entitled to privacy. Group administrators have the option to remove or ban followers from a group.

    To learn more about the Anahita™ Groups visit this page. Premium members can download the package and install it on the Anahita™ 1.5.3 and later.

     

     

    • Eric Doriean 4:02 am on March 8, 2011 Permalink

      Congratulations. Anahita is really coming together. Like the fact you mentioned blogs a few times. Must mean its getting closer?

    • Rastin Mehr 4:29 am on March 8, 2011 Permalink

      Thank you @Eric :)

      Closer to what?

    • Eric Doriean 8:34 pm on March 8, 2011 Permalink

      Closer to having the blog functionality in Anahita

    • Rastin Mehr 9:37 pm on March 8, 2011 Permalink

      Oh you are waiting for the blog! We will have blogs after the folksonomy libraries are implemented in the next release. Building the blogs after that will be quite simple!

    • Eric Doriean 4:07 am on March 11, 2011 Permalink

      Cool as. I like it when you use words like folksonomy

    • K 12:43 am on March 13, 2011 Permalink

      Please update your broken link for photos for the Anahita premium package. I purchased it yesterday and I do not have time to wait 72 hours for your company to get back to me. This is not acceptable. Time is money. please update this problem. Many thanks!

    • Rastin Mehr 1:37 am on March 13, 2011 Permalink

      @K the link was broken for a short while because we are reorganizing the SVN and building the Anahita Photos Birth release as we speak. We apologize for the inconvenience. The link has been updated and if you can wait a bit longer we will have the stable packages ready too soon. I’ve just sent you an email with more information.

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