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Andy P 7:52 pm on September 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply

When I wrote about turning WordPress MU into a social networking platform a little while back I never could have imagined the amount of interest it would generate.

I’ve heard from a lot of people. Some who are looking to build a new site, some running a site on old software, and others looking for extended WordPress MU functionality. It seems that people liked what they saw with ChickSpeak, and wondered if I would be offering the solution to the public.

BuddyPress is my offering, and although it is not close completion just yet, I wanted to let people into the development process with a dedicated blog.

Head on over and let me know your thoughts.

OPEN GIGA 1:40 am on September 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

I love your work and hope I also enjoy this cool site BuddyPress

Please updated your site regularly…

thanks
Tobias Schwarz 10:53 am on September 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply

That’s great! I’ve done something similar (albeit not as sophisticated with WP/bbpress and the multiply plugin for the standard WP branch. Will be following this project closely…
Mr.baaps 11:10 am on September 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply

I am impress by your talents, Andy. You are a one man army. BuddyPress is the exact tool that I have been dreaming about for years. I am so excited about the project. Keep up the good work I will spread the word and give my support.
Josh 9:36 am on September 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

I’ll definitely be keeping a watchful eye on this project! It looks like it may be exactly what I’ve been looking for. Excellent!
sania 10:20 pm on September 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply

Hello.

I need this plugin, how can i developed it through multi user word press plugin? When your product will be ready? any rough idea?
John Stevens 11:21 am on January 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

Hello

Just quickly looked at your notes about moving and changing platforms.

You do know that BuddyPress seems to be down?

I am sure it will be resolved and hope for good news on this.

Best wishes.
John
Stephanie 6:33 pm on January 26, 2008 Permalink | Reply

Hi there,

I’m very interested in your project. I’d help with the coding, but unfortunately, I’m not very keen in this area. I’m a community builder so if you need any help in this area, just let me know.

Are others helping you complete this project?

Thanks for everything you are doing!

Stephanie
Lis 5:09 pm on February 18, 2008 Permalink | Reply

I’m very interested using BuddyPress when it’s complete.
long 6:50 am on March 3, 2008 Permalink | Reply

The anticipation of buddypress is killing me. Any hints Andy?
drdx 6:45 pm on April 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply

nice i’ve waiting for this.. thank you, you make my life easier. ;;)
associate 5:55 pm on August 22, 2008 Permalink | Reply

This looks good… got me excited. Two thumbs up. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Greatly Appreciated

Andy P 7:24 pm on September 5, 2007 Permalink | Reply

The iPod touch is Apple’s new touch screen iPod offering. It’s essentially an iPhone without the phone features. It includes Wi-Fi, as well as the Safari web browser for internet access.

The crucial difference between the iPod touch and iPhone however, is the fact Apple is selling the iPod touch worldwide from the end of September.

Apple have already sold over 100m iPods, not all of which were full sized versions, but it gives an idea of the numbers. This means there is the possibility of many millions of people with the ability to browse the web on a quality mobile device. As Steve Jobs said, this is not the watered-down mobile web, this is the full web experience.

What does this mean for Web Developers?

With the potential for millions of people to use their iPod to browse the web, it could become a significant platform. It definitely will become a platform that needs to be tested on by developers, making sure that sites work with the screen-size and interface.

However, the bigger question is when will clients start requesting “iPod enabled” websites? We have already seen the likes of Digg and Facebook creating iPhone specific interfaces, making use of the iPhone’s screen size and touch interface.

I wonder if it will ever get to a point in time where people head on over to your website or web app and expect an “iPod enabled” interface?

Lots of things to consider, but you can see how the inclusion of a web browser on the iPod opens the doors to many new possibilities.

What are your thoughts?

cheap ipod touch, Avasilcai Daniel, Bill W. and one other person are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Derek 2:27 am on September 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  Although Mobile Safari use is still considerably low (relative to the competition), I think we’ll see more iPod Touch / iPhone friendly web interfaces.
  
  What I hope that developers keep in mind is that Mobile Safari does a fantastic job rendering standard web pages [especially over Wifi].
  
  Devs, make sure to provide visitors with an option to view pages in their full glory!
- Bill W. 10:10 am on September 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  I had a thought. When the iPhone came out, everyone started making iPhone compatible websites like “iphone.somedomain.com”. But, now that mobile Safari is appearing in devices like iPodTouch, it doesn’t make sense for people to name their domains that way.
  
  What exactly do you name the iPhone/iTouch/iFutureDevice subdomains then?? Somebody really needs to come up with a better convention for mobile Safari URLs.
- Avasilcai Daniel 8:56 am on December 18, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  
  I thought that resolution 800xsomething will disappear but i was wrong, will emerge on the market new devices that will similar resolution, one of this is the iphone. What i hate on this devices(i mean ipod touch &iphone) for example that they really have a good os (mac os x adapted mobile) but you can not have the preview app (adapted), text edit(adapted) so you must read pdf, doc file on your email, and is not all, you can not read pdf larger than 10mb, so i am asking my self for what all this 8gigs memory? I will buy this especially for reading ebooks on it. They are too limited on music & video , & email reading. In my opinion this is only a marketing, they do not want to develop other useful app on it, they want to sell content on itunes store. I don’t buy a device like this only to navigate with it. How many sites are real mobile ready? They got to sell millions to convince developers, i don’t mean only digg&facebook, i mean e banking sites, e commerce, where you can buy airplane tickets or things like this. Will see…
- cheap ipod touch 4:25 pm on October 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  Cool Great!
Andy P 6:49 pm on September 5, 2007 Permalink | Reply
Andy P 2:26 pm on September 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

As with their previous article a few months back, I was again flattered to be asked to contribute. The questions this time around were a little more in-depth, as a result there are some really well thought out, high quality answers in there.

They have split the article into two parts, with the first part covering the first three questions. The second part will be released later in the week.

Head over and check it out, it’s an excellent read and it was a lot of fun taking part.