People Pod: Open Source Social Software Toolkit

HomePage: http://peoplepods.net/

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" twitter clone"

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Description

PeoplePods is a framework that makes it easier to create community or "social" applications. It provides a flexible infrastructure within which members of a site can create, comment upon, and consume content of arbitrary types. Popular social functionality such as friend lists, personalized content views, bookmarking, and voting are automatically available within any PeoplePods application. PeoplePods can be used to build stand-alone sites, or can be layered onto existing sites such as those run using Wordpress or other PHP applications.

There are three main pieces of PeoplePods. The first is a software development kit that was built from the ground up to numb the pain of building a fun website that does cool stuff. The PHP-based, object-oriented libraries provides the underpinnings for all the basic services present on modern websites: log-in, personalization, content creation and management, and all of the above mentioned social actions. Thanks to the magic of object inheritance, all of the objects within the PeoplePods environment - people, documents, comments and groups - share common access methods and template conventions.

The second component is a package of plugin modules - we call them "pods" - that demonstrate the functionality of PeoplePods. The core pods are intended as examples to be customized by developers. However, using the modules and their accompanying templates, even non-programmers can create and customize PeoplePods sites that feature member profile pages, member created groups, private messaging, and member content creation. Those with a bit of programming experience will find the code within the pods easy to modify so that new functionality can be created or remixed from existing functionality.

Finally, PeoplePods has a full set of administrative tools that will allow the site's operator to keep an eye on activity and configure a number of optional features. These tools support normal member management tasks such as editing account details and resetting passwords as well as content moderation and editorial control tasks such as approving and featuring member content.