So disappointed that in this day and age still many CMS software attempt to fake a presentation using all sorts of tags inside the page wysiwyg editor. What happened to the idea of keeping content nodes atomic and separation of content and presentation? What’s even more sad is the fact that many people and developers seem to be ok with it!
We’ve managed to successfully cannibalize real life human interactions by replacing them with social networks and gadgets. I am myself guilty of contributing to the development of mobile apps and social networks in my professional life. Yet technological advancements are nearly useless when they get to facilitating intimate human connections and we further contribute to the problem whenever we avoid an eye contact or interaction with a stranger.
Do humanity a favour and have a conversation with a stranger today.
This year after graduating Anahita from the Mozilla WebFWD program and being coached by people such as Dia Bondi I’ve become more interested in the concept of story telling as a means of communicating complex subjects with people. Last year I learned about the Transmedia Storytelling concept from my good friend Ericha Hargreave from Ahimsa Media. For someone who has been developing social networking and knowledge networking technologies for a few years now, I think I might be able to learn some inspiring ideas from the MergingMedia conference, so let’s see how it goes. If you are attending too, come and find me.
At the beginning of this month we joined the LaunchAcademy which is one of the most active tech communities in Vancouver. We did this so so we can work closely with the other startups and also further promote the open source Anahita technology. This morning I was chatting with one of the community coordinators about ways to make the community more social and more engaging by making some adjustments to our day-to-day interactions and making them part of the community culture. I suggested a list and I am posting a copy of it here.
Please feel free to make adjustments and share. If you know how to make it better, please post your suggestions as comments.
Every new year some of the work from the previous year spills over and keeps us busy for at least a couple more weeks. The year 2012 started slow and clumsy at first, but it turned out to be a very productive and fruitful year for us.
We had 4 Anahita birth release of 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2. This project has grown quite a bit during the last year. If you don’t know about the Anahita project, it is a developer friendly social networking platform and framework that provides you a lot of the design patterns used for developing custom social networking apps and services using a correct nodes-graphs-stories architecture.
The improvements from Anahita 1.5 to the current release 2.2.3 are very prominent. Anahita is still a young project. By the end of 2013 we are aiming to have a codebase that is mostly native code and completely Joomla free as well as new social features that need to be available at the framework level for all the apps to use such as: global graph search, folksonomy, sharing, mentions, geolocations, and mobile accessibility. I can go on and on about the Anahita project, because it is our life project and part of our world liberation plan.
Another highlight of last year is the fact that we started to develop Android mobile apps as well as iphone and ipad. Our projects are now more focused on building location, communication, and social networking apps as well as custom scientific tools and calculators. We still do not accept mobile games. Sorry, but developing games requires a completely different skill set and project management workflow. We have also become a lot more meticulous about accepting projects from the “idea people” and startups.
Our client list is continuing to grow, thank you so much for all your business. We are now ready to take on 2013 with many more exciting projects and of course continue taking the Anahita project to a whole new level as the best social networking infrastructure technology there is.