Month: January 2011

Published Date 1/19/11 11:41 PM

I love this image, it says so much about geek/life stylist’s that push bad technology down peoples throats till they vomit and go back to such black holes as facebook and twitter (though twitter at least is open). 

And the solution doesn’t lie in single user blogging platforms such a wordpress as they aren’t designed to scale (when you add the needed plug-ins) to challenge corporate solutions. 

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answered Oct 18 ’10 at 20:11

I’ve tried a lot of Open source solutions and I would like to highlight only two of them:

BuddyPress:

About: BP is created upon the WordPress Engine, with tons of features but still has some missing. Pros: it is really easy to set up and customize, there are plenty of plugins if you’re not wanting to mimic absolutely every feature Facebook has. Cons: it’s kinda not fully optimized for large amount of traffic, since its a pack of plug-ins built on WordPress (so it has to make some strange and twisted ways to get some things done).

elgg:

It’s the only REALLY open source social community “a la Facebook” app.

Pros: You have ALL the features you would like, videos, photos, events, etc. It’s VERY similar to Facebook.

Cons: It’s not so-easy to customize… not so so hard neither. It’s still not fully optimized for large amounts of traffic, but still it’s much better at that problem than buddypress.

Depending on your developing skills i would recommend elgg (if you are better than worst) 🙂

But, give them a try, they’re the best apps (except for the ones one can make for oneself).

Hope I had helped!

From – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/698110/open-source-facebook-like-cms-social-network

We went with http://liferay.com as it is proven to scale, though it has its own configuration issues that we are slowly working through.

Published Date 1/18/11 3:22 PM

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Published Date 1/6/11 9:50 PM

The hardware is soled, its very well made, screen is good, keyboard OK (though can be a stretch to reach the keys).

Battery life is pretty bad, have not made it through a day yet.

Android is kinda clunky in a lot of places, not shore if this is HTC sense making it better or wares?

Camera is average, its hard to get a good focused shot and low light generally sucks. Ergonomics, of the camera is very bad, generally it is hard to hold the camera, to find the buttons and then actually know that you are pressing them.

Processor is fast and the UI responsive but the phone seams to suffer from wifi signal drop while holding it naturally to type with.

Conclusion: bad battery life, clunky software, problematic ergonomics as a camera.

7/10

NEXT: must be a better phone out there? Wright more about using it as a grassroots journalism tool soon.

Published Date 1/6/11 9:40 PM

A highly regarded early smart phone.

When you get used to Symbian the functionality is there is the best that could be said.

Its well made and has good battery life (though drops if use smart functionality).

Has an excellent camera best I have used on a smart phone But impossible to use the web beyond a basic level through lack of any keyboard.

Lots of geeky applications, but software support starting to fall behind

Conclusion: OK phone, excellent camera, some geeky potential, but limited as general web smart phone due to lack of keyboard and touch screen.

6/10