Rastin Mehr

You have changed our lives in ways nobody else did. Your memory will be in our hearts and minds and for centuries to come many hackers and entrepreneurs will be inspired by you.

This video has been circulating around on the web and it is a very moving scene of a 29 year old girl, who has been deaf from the birth time, hearing herself for the first time.

This video is especially very moving for me. As a technologist, I always wonder if what I create can and will change one’s life this much!

I’ve always believed that a technology that I develop better leave a major positive impact on people’s lives and this video portrays how much more profound and rewarding the outcome can be.

I think brilliant technologies that don’t get used and make no difference in our lives are nothing but intellectual and artistic expressions. There is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing intellectual and artistic abilities, but I think inventors, creators, and scientists have a responsibility go far beyond that.

Anahitaâ„¢ 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

 

 

Here comes a post after 18 months of not updating this blog. I have been fully engaged with the 2 projects and brands that we have been growing with my business partners Ash (from Peerglobe Technology) and Talia (TACN Studio) and that left me with very little time to update this blog. As you can see the rmd Studio blog has now been revived under an actual domain name RastinMehr.com.

A lot has happened during the past 18 months:

Last December we have co-founded our own tribe called the PurpleRat Tribe of companies which consists of rmd Studio, Peerglobe Technology, and TACN STudio. Our focus is developing mobile technologies. Purplerat.com provides custom iphone, ipad, and android apps development mainly in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area. We are however available to do custom projects for the clients outside British Columbia as well as Canada.

This January We have also officially launched the Anahitapolis website which is the home to the Anahita Social Networking Engine Project. A Social Engine or Social Networking Engine is basically the foundation you need to develop your social networking projects of any kind. It provides you a framework to build custom apps and a platform to host them. There are currently several other social engine projects happening in the world such as Elgg Social Engine, BuddyPress, Diaspora, and Appleseed (Thank you Wikipedia).

I can see that many future Internet services will be developed using different types of social engine technologies and as it was in the ReadWriteWeb (Web2.0) era, most of the action will be in the open source world.

While we fully appreciate a diverse ecosystem, yet as the creators of Anahita we would like to see her as the foundation of many future social networking technologies and businesses. We have been quite productive so far. Anahita project has had 9000 code commits done over 3200 hours and currently provides a collection of 5 stable social apps. More will be added as the project moves forward. You can read the 2nd quarterly report about the Anahita project yourself.

You will be noticing changes to the rmd Studio website as well. It is time to simplify things a bit. Simple is more manageable.

We would like to thank you Mr. Bob Bloom who did an interview with us on his radio podcast show about the Anahita Social Networking Engine project and Nooku.

Bob! thank you so much for having us on the show it was quite fun.

You can listen to the podcast here or subscribe to the BlogTalkRadio iTune feed here

and also we would like to invite you to listen to the last weeks Bob Bloom interview with Mr. Johan Janssens the Core Architect of Nooku Framework and Nooku Content projects. He is also the co-founder of Joomla! project and former lead developer of the Joomla! CMS and framework who developed a major part of the existing Joomla! 1.5.