I have been following the development of Buddypress for some time now and it was recently acquired by Automattic (the company that runs Wordpress). I think this was a great move, the person who was working on BuddyPress has an opensource project and was building it on top of WPMU, each “blog” was a profile. I look forward to seeing where it goes from here and see if it competes in the loaded, roll your own social network field, including Ning, Elgg and others.
BuddyPress can be seen in action on the site Chickspeak. Which was created by the BuddyPress creator who is now working for Automattic.
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I’m sure at least one of the words in the title caught your attention. Since my number of subscribers have picked up recently I wanted to highlight some posts from the past on other sites I guest blog on.
*Note publish dates in case topics or info seems dated.*
If any of them spark any comments feel free to leave them here, since I dont check the other sites that often.
I just heard about a new site called BricaBox. Rather than being a social site (IE facebook) or a content site (IE youtube). It is a social platform that lets you create your own social content site.
I think this would be a great tool to create your own user generated content and not be tied to using a certain content site. Right out of the box there are restaurant review site, photos + mashup site, website review site, video collection site, and discussion board among others. Or you can, create a BricaBox from Scratch.
It’s kind of a new concept so I think we will need to wait and see if it’s embraced.
I have been playing with lifestreaming lately, it is pretty much means aggregating all your online activity. I used to use my site as that, but it takes more effort and I have made more of a stride to use my site as a tech and higher ed blog than personal. To learn more about lifestreaming check out the Lifestreaming blog. I have been talking to the owner of this site of the last few days about what tools he recommends and some hints.
For a bit of history the first lifestreams I was aware of were Jeremy Keith’s another early one was that of Jeff Croft., who now uses tumblr
So here are a few of the sites I have tried:
Microblogs
Tumblr, which is technically a form of microblogging but since you can import feeds a lot of people have been using it like that.
Jaiku is another microblogging platform that is almost identical to twitter but it accepting incoming feeds. I don’t use it.
There are many more sites like these popping up. Most of these sites have an embed feature, right now I am embeding the Profilactic feed on my homepage, since it is the least flaky and supports the most sites. There are also various scripts and plugins that you can use to add a lifestream to your site.
My main problem is that I listen to so much music during the day that it looks like that is all I do. See last.fm is you don’t believe me.
Anyone else use anything similar?
Update:Facebook now plans to open up their newsfeed which is their versions of lifestreaming, interesting move.
I just heard about a new site called 
