Building Social Apps with Mezzanine: Drum. April 30, 2013 / Home Mezzanine has come a long way over the last few years, now powering hundreds of rich, content-driven sites. For the most part these sites follow a similar pattern, one which Mezzanine is heavily geared towards: B2C sites comprised of heterogeneous, hierarchical content. In this regard Mezzanine has been a huge success, however in its entirety it’s capable of quite a lot more. Out of the box it provides a range of useful utilities, that aren’t particularly geared towards a typical corporate site, but instead are aimed at a more social style of web application. Interestingly, these extra utilities provided by Mezzanine form the core feature set of several very popular news aggregation sites, such as Hacker News and Reddit, and even their predecessors Slashdot and Digg. To demonstrate these extra capabilities of Mezzanine, I set out to do something entirely lacking in innovation, by creating a direct Hacker News clone using Mezzanine.
Profiling Users Conclusion. Home | Drum. Stephenmcd/drum. The diaspora* Project. Diaspora (social network) The social network is not owned by any one person or entity, keeping it from being subject to corporate take-overs or advertising. In September 2011 the developers stated, "...our distributed design means no big corporation will ever control Diaspora.
Diaspora* will never sell your social life to advertisers, and you won’t have to conform to someone’s arbitrary rules or look over your shoulder before you speak. "[2] Diaspora software development is managed by the Diaspora Foundation, which is part of the Free Software Support Network (FSSN). The Diaspora social network is constructed of a network of nodes, or pods, hosted by many different individuals and institutions. Friendica instances are also a part of the Diaspora social network through the Friendica Diaspora connector.[7] Diaspora users retain ownership of their data and do not assign ownership rights.
The Diaspora software allows user posts to be designated as either "public" or "limited". OwnCloud.org | Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!