Rastin Mehr

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.

At the JoomlaDay Espain Johan Janssens, the Joomla! Co-Founder and former 1.5 Lead Developer puts out some very important reminders:

“An open source project is about people producing free and open software and contributing to something as a team for the benefit of others.”

“Open source projects reflect the spirit of collaboration and fun while garnering community feedback and providing good governance that allows for business to confidently invest in its development.”

“Open source projects are open to the participation of anybody who can contribute value and is willing to work with the community.”

and my most favorite of all:

“As individuals we’re all pretty good but as a collective, we’re amazing!”

Identifying different types of websites still remains to be a mystery to many. Throughout our consulting sessions we have learned that some confusions still exists amongst the business owners or even marketing and PR people who often play the role of educators to their clients.

A lot of today’s successful websites are powered by software and developed by software developers and not by static pages published by web designers and web design companies. That might be the clue to why your last website project that was put together by your favorite design and marketing firm looked so visually stunning but failed to perform as it should have!

Understanding the nature of your Internet project and knowing the evolutionary stage that it is standing in,  will put you in the right direction in choosing the type of talents and teams that you will be involving with your next website project.

This diagram shows the evolution of Internet websites from static HTML pages all the way up to the social web. Charles Darwin would have been so proud of this!

Continue reading Evolution Of Websites

We would like to thank the Nooku and Beyounic teams for presenting the Anahita project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome and Nooku presentation. I must say nothing is more encouraging and energizing to us after long sleepless days of coding when a pack of truly awesome friends and brilliant minds spread the word for us with lots of enthusiasm half way across the planet. Ash and I feel truly blessed, appreciated and fortunate to meet and work with the Nooku (twitter: @nooku) and Beyounic (twitter: @beyounic) teams. Thank you for being so awesome 🙂

Anahita Social Engineâ„¢ is an open source and architecturally organic platform and framework for developing all kinds of custom social networking solutions. This technology is being developed by rmdStudio Inc. and Peerglobe Technology Inc. using the Nooku Framework agile and RAD technology. Nooku and Beyounic teams are both in the global tribe of Anahita partners and have been great supporters of this project.