The people over at WordPress are working day in and out on making blogging a more social and connected experience called BuddyPress. According to Matt Mullenweg the founder of WordPress, BuddyPress would be incrementally released to the general public during this year with the full platform being made available sometimes by the end of this year.
BuddyPress is based on the multi-authored, multi-blog platform of WordPress called WordPress MU. Its actually a set of extensions and plugins for WordPress MU that adds a distinct feature to the WordPress MU and transforms the plain vanilla installation into a full blown social network.
Some of the features that BuddyPress will support include extended and fully customizable profiles, personal blogs, private conversational messaging, friends, groups, photo albums and status updates.
But we already can do all this stuff on any of the social networks including facebook, MySpace and Orkut etc. Why would the world needs another social network. The team over at BuddyPress thinks that:
The world doesn’t need another social network, it needs a thousand networks that let you own your data and interconnect using open standards. We invest countless hours giving our data to networks like MySpace, essentially sharecropping on their land for the privilege of being able to connect to our friends. It’s our friends, our time, our connections, our data — it should be our software.
I think only an Open Source solution can do that.
BuddyPress was initially announced by Matt Mullenweg in March and was created by Andy Peatling, who is now a full time employee at Automattic. It seems that Andy is working aggressively on the project ever since and you can see the latest development release to see how much work has already been done.
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