BuddyPress the Buddy Press

Social Blog­ging or link­ing Blogs to a Social Net­work that’s the mis­sion of Bud­dy­Press. Andy Peatling finally released the Bud­dy­Press 1.0 Beta ver­sion which is sur­pris­ingly sta­ble already. YORGOO Media is exper­i­ment­ing with a semi­oman­tics tuned ver­sion of Buddy Press.

Bud­dy­Press is a sis­ter project of Word­Press. For the time being it is designed only for Word­Press MU, the blog­farm ver­sion of WP. It is expected that a ver­sion for indi­vid­ual WP sites will become avail­able sooner or later.

Bud­dy­Press comes as a plug in mod­ule to the WP MU instal­la­tion and pro­vides typ­i­cal fea­tures and ben­e­fits appre­ci­ated by the users of Social Netoworks: Buddy Press is a WP based Social Net­work Platform.

YORGOO Press is a demo plat­form loaded with a Semi­oman­tics Tun­ing Pack where ben­e­fits are visible:

Every Net­work Par­tic­i­pant can link to any othe par­tic­i­pant using the Friends fea­ture. A request to become friends needs to be answered pos­i­tively and the two par­tic­i­pants are linked. A Friends search tool makes it easy to find new contacts.

Sim­i­lar fea­tures exist for groups: par­tic­i­pants can cre­ate and join Groups, which can be the­matic or geo­graphic or spec­i­fied by any other pre-configured criteria.

There is a direct mes­sage­ing sys­tem built in, as well as forums for each group.

We will talk about more fea­tures in details in the near future.

Bud­dy­Press Image

YORGOO Media is inter­ested in Bud­dy­Press to extend the YORGOO prod­uct range namely for cus­tomers who are look­ing for more con­troll of their online Pro­file and Con­tent  Cre­ation. Not that we expect Bud­dy­press would replace social net­works, how­ever by link­ing a Bud­dy­Press enabled blog to social net­works, the bulk of per­sonal cre­ation can be kept out­side of social net­works and pre­served from the dan­gers inher­ent to the Social net­works build­ing of large data­bases col­lec­tion data in rela­tion to behavior.

There is more to it: YORGOO Press is pow­er­ing online news­pa­pers which can have local or a global tar­get pub­lic. Cre­at­ing a com­mu­nity amongst the read­ers and con­trib­u­tors can be a plus for any newspaper.

Also, in con­nec­tion with the Host­ing South Africa Project, the cre­ation of a blog­ging com­mu­nity (we have reg­is­terred sablogger.com) with social net­work­ing func­tions and fea­tures sec­ond to none as a free door­way to join­ing Host­ing South Africa Prod­ucts is an inter­est­ing idea.

Tonight at 9 pm Lon­don time we will present YORGOO Media and Bud­dy­Press at our daily call. We will invite par­tic­i­pants to test run Bud­dy­Press with us to do some stress test­ing on on our script.

Related posts:

1. Bud­dy­Press Yor­goo Media
2. Host­ing BuddyPress
3. YORGOO Press Configuration
4. YORGOO Press on Google
5. New Theme for YORGOO Press

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