Anahita Social Engine ™ is a light and scalable open source solution for building Social Networks, Intranets, and so many other types of social web experiences! Anahita is outstanding because it:

• provides essential social features out of the box
• the look & feel is fully customizable
• follows Google Open Social Standards
• works with Amazon Cloud storage
• provides rich API for developing Social Applications

Feature List

Anahita Social Engine ™ currently provides the following set of features

• Rich & Elegant User Profiles
• Follows Google Open Social standards
• Open ID sign in
• Flexible Lead-Follow-Mutual Social Graphing similar to Twitter, Digg.com, or Flickr
• Organic Privacy Manager based on Social Graph and Privacy Groups
• Intelligent Activity Updates
• Translatable Interface & Messages
• Public Messaging
• Notifications & Requests
• Fully Ajax User Interfaces
• Fully Customizable Look & Feel
• Seamless Amazon Cloud Storage System Integration
• Rich API for developing Social Applications
• A solid platform for running Social Applications (Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Forums, Photos)
• Photo Sharing Applications
• Written in beautiful MVC code

iPhone is that incredibly popular mobile platform developed and marketed by Apple. Even though iPhone is marketed as a mobile phone, in reality it is actually a pocked computer and social networking hardware capable of running all kinds of applications. The "phone" functionality just happens to be one of the many applications shipped with this amazing computing platform.

There are more than 13 million iPhones in the circulations today which makes it a platform worth investing in for developing content delivery and social web communication tools.

An article about the Vancouver Joomla Day by Bruce Byfield on Linux.com website contains information about community building techniques and how businesses could adopt methods practiced by the Open Source projects to help grow and nurture a Community. This article describes how unconferences and the use of Social Media such as (Twitter , Facebook , and Flickr ) are replacing the old school ways of organizing conferences.

I would like to thank Mr. Bruce Byfield for the interview he conducted with me and two other consultants: Steve Bougerolle and Vivien Anayian.

Steve, Vivien, and I have one thing in common: we primarily offer open source solutions to our clients. This article is titled "FOSS [Free Open Source Software] consulting offers special advantages and challenges" and tackles interesting issues about choosing the right FOSS, business advantage, and the challenges involved in educating corporate clients about this concept.

Article is published on IT Manager's Journal.