Charmian's Journal

Buddypress seems to have developped further from when I last saw it. This is a mod of WPMU (wordpress multiuser) which allows social networking functions. In other words, I guess this means you can create something like ning.com. Buddypress has social networking features, like user profiles, private messaging, friends, commenting on things (the Wire), activity streams, seeing all of your comments/blogposts, etc., and people can also have their own blogs. Plus, they can form groups with their own forums. I'm not sure if they can also have group blogs or what kind of privacy features there are though.

What will the next iteration of social networking look like? What kinds of new features will it have? It's exciting to watch this develop.

There seem to be some interesting things going on in the DiSO world, but as a non-web-developer there's a lot that I don't understand and will need to read up on more. (like oAuth).