We are celebrating 10k code commits for Anahita

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Rastin Mehr

Anahita™ is the open source social networking software that we have been developing for the past 3 years and we have just passed 10,000 code commits to the Anahita code repository. That will be over 3400 hours of work done by 2 people, myself and Ash Sanieyan from PeerGlobe Technology who is the architect of the Anahita framework following the true Nodes-Graphs-Stories architecture.

Anahita is both a powerful framework for developing custom social applications and a great platform for hosting them.

We often joke that Anahita is RAD, SAASY, and Social pointing out the facts that Anahita is a Rapid Application Development framework which is great for developing Software As A Service social networking business projects.

We are currently working on the Anahita 1.6 and 1.7 codebase which will bring many new possibilities and improvements to the overal design of the software. This also means that the next 4 months are going to be very exciting times for us.

To celebrate the 10k code commits we are currently offering a 35% discount coupon for the Anahita Premium Tribe membership. The coupon is only valid for the next 72 hours, so if you have been waiting for a good saving to join the Anahita premium tribe, now is the time. To read the announcement and get the coupon code go to this blog post on Anahitapolis: Anahita is celebrating 10,000 code commits

New Premium Plans on Anahitapolis

Until now Anahitapolis (home of Anahita project) has been offering only one premium plan which provided complete access to all the Anahitapolis resources. In the mean time some premium members required private consulting with us so we could help them with their social networking related project. During those meetings, we often discuss topics such as Anahita social app development, code reviews, and development of a strategy on how to save time and cost as well as reducing the involved risks.

Anahitapolis is currently offering 3 Premium Plans: Platinum, Gold, and Titanium. The last 2 are bundled with 2 and 12 hours of private consulting hours at discounted rate which makes them great values for premium tribe members who are currently developing a social networking project or service.

You can follow updates regarding the Anahita Social Networking Engine project by following the:

Anahitapolis Blog
@anahitapolis twitter
facebook.com/anahitasocial facebook page

Anahita Social Engine ™ Presentation at the Vancouver DemoCamp 07

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Rastin Mehr

This article has already been posted on the Anahitapolis blog, however for many who are still unaware of that website, here is the link. This event was organized by our wonderful friends Boris Mann, Sonia Ryan, and Roland Tanglao from the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society who gave us the spotlight for 30 minutes on July 7th 2009 at the WorkSpace in a room with at least 60-80 people from the vancouver technology community. Thank you so much for this opportunity guys!

Here is the video and since the slide show is not quite clear in it we have also embeded the presentation as a slideshare in this blog post for you. Thank you Roland for the great video that you’ve made. The the other project that presented after us was BuddyPress from Automattic. These are the same great folks who have devleoped the WordPress blogging software.

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Nooku Interview with Rastin Mehr on Vimeo about Anahita Social Engine ™

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Rastin Mehr

Anahita Social Engine with Joomla! from Nooku on Vimeo.

Yesterday Peter Russel interviewed me about the Anahita Social Engine ™ and how we used the beloved Nooku Framework to develop our social web development technology. I think despite the stuffy nose caused by summer allergy and being up early after late hours of working the night before, I managed to communicate what we have been cooking up for the past 18 months!

I wish my good friend and partner Ash Sanieyan from Peerglobe Technology could be there in the video too. Having spent countless of sleepless nights and long working days together on the Anahita project he could have offered very interesting inputs about the technology from his own perspective. Perhaps next time he will the one on the spotlight while I’ll be coding and fixing bugs

Thank you very much Peter, Johan, and Mathias (the Nooku folks) for this interview

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Make sure to use a Social Engine for your Social Anything Project

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Rastin Mehr

A social engine is a platform that manages user profiles, privacy, social graphing, and enables us to run social applications on it. It also provides a software development framework and API to those who wish to develop social applications, games, and social engine enhancers. When you think about it, a Social Engine is a lot like a web based secondary operating system! You get OSX, Linux, Windows and then you can install and run applications on them. They also provide application development APIs, manage user accounts, permissions, and much more.

I’ve seen companies who try imitating the features of a social network ( user profiles, social graph, … ) using Drupal, WordPress but the end result though mimicking a social network’s behaviour is not a platform which can run social applications. They are also solutions carved out of granite that look shiny and nice at the beginning, but they turn into nightmares to maintain, because the idea of having a well supported infrastructure was not considered from the beginning.

Naive clients who think building a social network is yet another web design project totally fall for that, and wonder why they end up with clunky websites that look nice, but don’t operate as they should, and they are impossible to upgrade as the market trend changes.

So please don’t shoehorn a CMS into a social networking project. Understand what a social engine is, and make sure your Social Anything project is going to be developed using one.

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