BuddyPress

Hey guys,

There’s this concept I have which I’d like to implement as a plugin, however, if it wouldn’t gain much of attention anyway, there’s no reason to, so please post your opinions below.

I’d like to create an API which would allow social sites’ users to search for people registered on other social sites and perform other site-independent activities from a single instance of BuddyPress (and even better, other social site engines). This, I think, would encourage people to use niche-specific social sites, while still keeping in contact with their friends using other sites (and basically that would free you from having to use Facebook because all your friends are there).

Waclaw-

Are you aware of the Open Stack? Integration of the Open Stack is on the BuddyPress roadmap for sometime around version 1.4. It will do what you are proposing and more. If you want a real challenge, you can start working on integrating the Open Stack into BP!

@ Wacław, here,here . if you can start on integrating Open stack it would be a killer app for all?

@Jeff Sayre, Any update on the privacy plugin?

Contact Jeff directly or post in an existing thread as this thread has now been taken offtopic.

This is a great idea because a lot of people live by Facebook and other social networks, integrating them all together could become a future direction of web 3.0

Alright guys, I will start on the project once I get a bit of free time. Thank you a lot for your support!

By the way, are there any beta-tester volunteers?

I’d be happy to test this. Keep me posted.

I would also test this.

Alright, please contact me via private message.

This is great idea. If you can integrate sites’ users of the like such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and so on… it will be a killer app for bb.

Waclaw — I’ve started working on a jQuery plugin for distributed social networks (the social stack). One thing that’s needed is a process for “discovery.” There are several solutions already out there implementing various kinds of things along this line, but nothing quite like what you’re calling for.

Go look up Chris Messina, Luke Shepard and David Recordon (Facebook), Joseph Smarr and John McCrea (both Plaxo). They’re all advocating this type of stuff.

(You can watch them here: http://thesocialweb.tv/ ) (hasn’t been active in a little while, though, but look at the archives)

Anyway, I think I’ve seen you in the dev chat, so maybe I’ll talk to you there too, when time permits. There’s much to say on this, and I’m hoping to do some good legwork on getting things ready. While I don’t have *only* BuddyPress in mind as the platform, it is the most interesting platform (and viable) at the moment.

Oh, I failed to mention Will Norris, who already wrote an OpenID plugin for WordPress, which works pretty good, but seems to be missing a few key features.

There’s some talk of integrating OpenID into the core of WP, but there’s also disagreement on this. With BuddyPress putting it on the iteration roadmap, this may change people’s minds in the long run as they realize how Identity *IS* the platform (the core) of the Internet.

I would not use Buddypress if it would force members of my sites to sign up with OpenID. Perhaps I misunderstand, but I would always want the option to make an old-fashioned closed off site with its own registration, independent of OpenID or whatever other self-appointed overseer – sure Facebook, Plaxo etc. are “all advocating that stuff”, they want to become the gatekeepers.