Social Engine & Development Frameworkwww.Anahitapolis.com

We had some social web business ideasTazzu.comDistributed Online Learning Citizen's Journalism...

and some project ideasSocial IntranetSocial Project Management...

A social web business model requires lots of experimentation and try and errors. So we need to reduce the cost of experimenting by developing a platform that is

Modular such that changing some parts would not affect the other partsScalable to accommodate for large number of usersExtendible through third party extensions Customizable third party developers should be able to change the behavior, look and feel and even the data structure without hacking the core codeOpen Source because we want to share the building blocks with people and tap into the world of collective innovations.

or else our resources would be drained

We need a reusable container that provided all the basic characteristics commong amongst all the Social Website

ProfilesSocial GraphingActivity FeedPrivacy ManagementMessaging (Public, Private, System) Ability to run Social Apps Useful APIs for

extending the systemtaggingcommentingbookmarkingetc

This container is called a Social Engine

In search for the Holy Grail of Social Web Platforms

Studied a whole list of existing web applications and frameworks!

Didn't quite like any of them!

You want to know why?

Absence of a MVC software development framework Didn't like the way they were coded (all top down or functional programing) or Spaghetti Coding !!!!!!!

We did however get ideas from the Drupal's node base architecture and Wordpress's usability. Nice Work!

So we decided to build an Open Source Social Engine for ourselves and for all the people out there who'd like to experiment with social web projects without having to break the bank.

We named her Anahita after the Persian Goddess of Water, Wisdom, Fertility, and Love who seeds planet with life and grows communities. In ancient Persia, water symbolizes knowledge because it is necessary for life and it flows freely and finds it's way out through even smallest openings.

Not to mention that she looks hot!

Anahita Social Engine ™

The Social Engine and Social Applications are available as installable extensions for Joomla!

Anahita Social Engine ™ providesProfiles & Profile GadgetsSocial Graphing (Lead, Follow, Mutual)Activity Feed: to publish activity storiesMessaging: public, private, notifications and emailOrganic Privacy ManagementAbility to run Social Applications (Blogs, Wikis, photos, discussion boards, etc.)Sub-Containers: Groups, Events, Organization Pages, etc.APIs for Privacy, Folksonomy, Commenting, and Social Applications development

Uses Nooku ™ Framework: Which provides a Rapid Application Development framework so Anahita ™ extensions and social applications can be developed. Nooku ™ Framework implements complete set of software design patterns such as MVC, Mixins, Proxy, Decorators, Table Gateways and many more http://www.Nooku.org/en/framework.html

Installs on Joomla! ™ which provides:A powerful template engineExtensions manager (components, modules, plugins, language packs)Menu managerBasic user management and authentication. a quite powerful CMS

That means we can turn any Joomla powered website into a social website of some sort. Social Intranets anyone?

Here is the big picture

Ash Sanieyan & Rastin Mehr developed AnahitaJohan Janssens (co-founder, former lead developer of Joomla) & Mathias Verraes developed Nooku

Anahita is fully customizableAlmost every part of Anahita is re-rewritable by third party extensions, Thanks to NookuAll Requests and Database Transactions are interceptable by third party extensionsProvides many point of integrations or hooks for third party applications Joomla provides one of the finest template engines available today

HTML/CSS/javascript output of all of the extensions can be overwritten by developers

Lead, Follow, Mutual Social GraphingSimilar to Twitter, Digg, Flickrmore flexible than the enforced mutual friendships that facebook provides

Terms Lead, Follow, and Mutual can be changed to work for an appropriate context. For example:

Teacher, Student, Colleague (Social Learning website)Idol, Fan, Friend (photo sharing website)

Anahita Social ™ ApplicationsAre installed as Joomla components. In the future we'd like to deliver some of them via the web.Can have multiple gadgets on the user profilesThey can publish stories, notifications and requests on behalf of the user. All of which that can be localized to the viewer's preferred language setting

Some Scalability ExamplesDistributed Memory Caching System

Faster SessionsDatabase Query Caching

Storage Virtualization Configurable by site ownersNon Disruptive data migrationDistributed File Systems

Container & Sub-ContainerSocial Engine is the main containerGroups, Events, Organization Pages are Sub-Containers

What we have accomplished!

An Open Source Platform That is

Modular CustomizableScalable Exendible

Lowered Costs

We have also lowered the cost of development and experimentation with social web projects

Early access to the source code is available via the Partner's Program: 500 USD for one year http://www.anahitapolis.com/become-a-partner

After the public release Anahita Social Engine ™ will be available for free on the Joomla extensions directory. Anahita Social Extensions and Applications will be available on the www.Anahitapolis.com support and distribution website via paid membership (300$ annual fee) where we host recent updates, documentation, tutorials, the community, and social website kits.

Social Web != Social Networks

Facebook and Twitter are only two examples of the many different variations that a social website can be!

Software Support & Distribution Website

Social Intranet

Social Project Management

Citizens Journalism

Do you want Anahita?

Wait until the public release Become a partner right now http://www.anahitapolis.com/become-a-partner

Hire us to build your social web project

Thank you!Special Thanks to Our Partners

Bingo.com

Dioscouri.comElund Christensen

Fidus.seJentekk.comNooku.orgTazzu.com

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