Push messaging with OpenDD

Federated networks are the future for social networks. Realistically, nobody is going to come along any time soon to challenge the big players like Facebook. But what we can do is allow users to move themselves and their data seamlessly between niche networks, or better yet provide a way of linking up users and data […]

Marcus Povey

Federated networks are the future for social networks. Realistically, nobody is going to come along any time soon to challenge the big players like Facebook. But what we can do is allow users to move themselves and their data seamlessly between niche networks, or better yet provide a way of linking up users and data […]

Syndicating friends activity using OpenDD

You are probably all aware of the concept of the River in terms of social networking platforms; being able to see what your friends have been up to as a list of events – what they have been doing, who they have made their friend etc. This feature – made popular by the facebook “mini-feed” […]

Marcus Povey

You are probably all aware of the concept of the River in terms of social networking platforms; being able to see what your friends have been up to as a list of events – what they have been doing, who they have made their friend etc. This feature – made popular by the facebook “mini-feed” […]

Changes to the river code

The latest Elgg 1.0 code changes how the river works slightly from that discussed in my previous article on the subject. These changes are entirely under the hood so they’ll only be noticeable to plugin writers, however it simplifies matters immeasurably and makes it possible to do some quite funky things. In a nutshell, the […]

Marcus Povey

The latest Elgg 1.0 code changes how the river works slightly from that discussed in my previous article on the subject. These changes are entirely under the hood so they’ll only be noticeable to plugin writers, however it simplifies matters immeasurably and makes it possible to do some quite funky things. In a nutshell, the […]