Re: Checking on the list + Elgg

Hi!
In all honesty, I've found elgg in the first place through Marco Marengo
from Telecom Italia! So Claudio, I think the spotting kudos actually
goes to your people ;)

It's also interesting that the Wordpress platform can be likewise
extended (Thanks Vincent!).

I think there's some vague general agreement that, when dealing with
distributed architectures, we're likely to end up with to types of
components:

- Data providers: friend lists, contextual information (position,
presence), activity streams (a la twitter/facebook),
applications/widgets, etc...

- And "aggregators" for those data providers, which consitute what the
user sees, and link all those data sources into a nice interface

Probably, both wordpress and elgg should be considered for the State of
the Art if not also for the development of a proof of concept.

Any more candidates?
Miquel

Vincent M. Zegna wrote:
> It is something we have been considering also and having a good look
> now.  Currently we spent a lot of time re-writing the Wordpress MU
> platform here: http://myjournal.com there are still severe limitations
> especially in expanding it's architecture to do everything we want.
>
> Vincent
>
> Vincent Zegna
> myJournal.com
>
>
> Venezia Claudio wrote:
>> Well spotted,
>> We've been using it,
>> it is indeed a good tool!
>>
>> Claudio
>>
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>>> Subject: Checking on the list + Elgg
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>> This list is uncharacteristically quite since our last phone call! How
>>> are things going? When do we meet again?
>>>
>>> Additionally, I was looking at Elgg (http://elgg.org), an open source
>>> (GPL) social networking platform that could be very interesting at the
>>> very least for proofs of concept regarding distributed architectures
>>>
>>> See you all,
>>> Miquel
>>>
>>>
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Miquel Martin
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NEC Europe Ltd.
NEC Laboratories Europe
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69115 Heidelberg
Germany

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Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 11:41:32 UTC