Description

You’ll want P2P social networker if you

• Own a Wordpress.org blog
• Live and breath social networking
• Feel limited by your regular social network page
• Have the strange feeling in you stomach that you might have some extra spam after your subscription
• Are tired of site maintenance and/or downtime of regular social networks
• Prefer people who have something to blog about over teenagers who seem to be able to talk about nothing forever

P2P social networker offers you

• The social network functionality you’re used to, like friends, personal messages, updates about friends, etc…
• All the Wordpress functionality you love
• Peer to peer social networking, which means
• All your information stored on your own server
• If one server goes down, the rest stays up
• A network of bloggers without central server intervention

P2P social networker is a social networking plugin to turn your very blog into the centre of your networking needs. Based on open standards like RSS and XMLRPC, P2P social networker allows you to communicate and keep track of what your friends are doing.

P2P social networker makes use of powerful tools included in Wordpress, such as Askimet spam filtering and automattic Gravatar images.

P2P social networker is now in a usable state. I will not actively continue development, but I will fix bugs and add requested features, so keep your requests and bugs coming! Visit my blog for more information.

Installation

1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
2. Optional: Add the widget to your sidebar
3. Go to your dashboard and start adding and messaging friends!

Faq

Where is the admin page!

There is none. All management is done at the Actions tab at the admin dashboard. There are a few extra setting under ‘reading’ where you can set how many friends/messages/events you want to show.

Can I add friends from other social networks?

Sure, as long as they have an RSS feed you can add them manually.

Is there a P2P Social Networker version for ?

Not as far as I know. But as long as your site has an RSS feed and supports a bunch of XMLRPC methods, you’re good to go.

Which methods?

That sounds good! Interested? I only use two methods at the moment:

1. xmlrpc_encode_request(‘P2PSN.sendMessage’, array(
   name => “name”,
   image => “image”,
   url => “website”,
   message => “message”));

2. xmlrpc_encode_request(‘P2PSN.requestUser’, array(
   name => get_bloginfo(‘name’),
   image => “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=”.md5( strtolower(get_option(“admin_email”) ) ),
   url => get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’),
   feed => get_bloginfo(‘rss2_url’)));

Note: Your email address is not shared, only the MD5 hash (this is the same stuff Wordpress uses to save your passwords) is outputted to the browser.

Does P2P social networker have ?

I doubt it, but feel free to send me a request.

Screenshots

This is the sidebar widget, I left everything unstyled for now. Front end style is up to the theme I think.

The new and shiny admin dashboard showing everything you want to know, and if you don’t, collapse then with one click.

Contact

Author: Pepijn de Vos

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Description

Add interactive video capabilities to your blog! This is not just another video embed tool – it includes the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and much more… And Kaltura covers all hosting and streaming costs for FREE up to 10GB.

Highlights:

• Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to your blog post;
• Edit and remix videos using Kaltura’s online full-featured video editor;
• Easily import all rich media (video, audio, pictures…) from other sites and social networks, such as MySpace, Flickr, CCMixter, Jamendo, New York Public Library etc. and;
• Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos;
• Manage and track interactive videos through the management console;
• Complete administrative capabilities. You decide who can add and edit videos;
• Supports more than 150 video, audio and image file formats and codecs
• Three different video player styles to choose from
• Custom sizing of the video player
• Advanced sharing options for videos
• Easy installation that takes just 4 steps and a few minutes.

With Version 1.15 we’ve added quite a few fixes and enhancements, including the ability to set permissions per player. Based on several requests that we received, now you can choose who can add to and edit each specific video player that you post.

Showcase your blog, see examples and pictures of the plugin and get support in our forum: http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4

Installation & Settings

1. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in the WordPress admin application
2. Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Interactive Video’ to setup the Interactive Video plugin

Faq

I installed the plugin, but installation failed after pressing Complete Installation, showing me a text in a red rectangle?
Cause: Either curl / curl functions is disabled on your server or your hosting blocks API calls to the Kaltura servers.

• Solution 1: Enable curl and it’s functions on the server (or have the hosting company enable it for you).
• Solution 2: Remove any blocking of external calls from the server.

I can’t activate the plugin, it presents an error message after clicking Activate on the plugin list
It might be caused due to an old version of PHP. The Kaltura wp plugin is written for PHP4 and PHP5 with the use of classes and static members, these are not supported on earlier versions of PHP. Upgrade to PHP5 / later. If upgrading doesn’t solve this issue or you already have PHP5 on your server, post the error information on the forum and we’ll help you. (http://community.kaltura.org/viewforum.php?f=4). Support for PHP4 was added on version 1.0

Screenshots

Blog main page with Interactive Video posts.

Add a video comment.

Management panel Kaltura integration (write a post).

Interactive Video browse, gallery on management.

Player with interactive options of adding assets (photo, video, audio …) to the video and edit.

The plugin Settings page.

Contact

Author: Kaltura

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Description

Upon clicking the highlighter button: visitor’s mouse cursor changes to a pen and s/he can highlight any part of your web-page – in color. Mouse over any highlight and post it to any Social Network or Social Bookmark site.

EASY SHARE: helps visitors promote your site.

• Share highlights with anyone

• No special software needed
• No signup needed
• FREE
• Makes sharing very effective since readers can immediately focus on the highlights while keeping the context and content intact.

Share using: E-Mail, Blogs, IM, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks, Forums, Comments or any medium!

Puts a Micro-wrapper around the functionality of AddThis, ShareThis, AddToAny etc. so that readers can easily draw attention to what they want to share on your page without having to go through the tedium of copying parts of a page, and pasting them into email with a link.

Automatically does it – all – for the user by simply using a highlighter pen that is familiar to everyone regardless of age, sex, race, religion, or geography!

Post to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, delicious, digg, hi5, Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Bebo, BlackPlanet… over a 100+ such websites.

MICRO-BOOKMARK:

• Automatically & instantly shortens URL (generates a MicroBookmark)
• MicroBookmark goes directly to the highlighted portion on your page and can have a custom name such as http://rooh.it/warSux

VIRAL LINKS TO YOUR SITE: A very viral way to get into all social networks.

• Automatically & instantly posts a link to your site

• on our Home Page,
• our Collection of user generated Highlights,
• that reader’s blog and/or Social Networks, and
• in a peer-to-peer mechanism on ALL Social Networks, and Blogging Platforms using the related “My Highlights” sidebar widget

The link to your site is posted with the implicit endorsement of

• being selected by “a known person” (friend), and
• as being “interesting” (relevant!)

Ensuring maximum visibility and credibility of your website.

FEATURES:

• Restores & Remembers Highlights: Everything a reader highlights is automatically restored & remembered (without asking anyone to signup)
• MicroBookmarks: automatically makes a short url that goes directly to the highlights on your page
• Email Highlighted Page: with embedded highlights or just a MicroBookmark url, to anyone!
• Web Based: Anyone can see shared highlights (no special software needed, no download, no installation)
• Auto Publish to own Blog, Web-Site…: enables readers to automatically post – anything they highlight on your page – to their blog, and to all Social Networks using a trusted peer-to-peer mechanism.
• Post to Any other website: Easy Share links to your site, in 1-click, on all community, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks,& Social media sites
• Contact list: is seamlessly imported, maintained, autoCompleted and autoPopulated.
• My Collection: See all highlights together . categorize/tag them, rate them, share with others, annotate & much more.
• Combine: select any subset of highlights and see them as one page with highlights & context intact.
• FREE & No SignUp: Don’t have to ‘join’ another service, and it’s all free!
• Intelligent AJAX: does all this, without visitors ever leaving your page

COOL

VALUABLE TOOL

NATURAL PUBLISHING TOOL:

• Commonly used in the offline world
• Insofar missing in the online world!

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE:

• Gets you insights on what your visitors are interested in: tells you inot just which pages but – which parts of each page are of interest to your audience.

Installation

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Faq

What is a MicroBookmark?
Just like a bookmark takes you to a web-page, a MicroBookmark takes you directly to a part of the page, and it is already highlighted! (Power users can think of it as reader defined anchor tags)

Why MicroShare?
Because it saves time, and quickly & easily draws attention to the most important part of your web page while still maintaining the context and credibitlity intact.

What do you mean MicroSave?
When someone highlights a part of a page, it is automatically saved for the user.

Why use this?
It’s all done automatically, users don’t have to copy-and-paste parts of the page to their email, and/or a link to the page in order to call attention to just a portion of the page.

What platforms are supported other than WordPress?
You can add a highlighter to any webpage: on your blog, on your website, in your forums postings, in your classifieds listings, on your Profile Page, in comments you make anywhere on the Internet… Learn more.

Screenshots

This is what a Highlighted page looks like (visitors can pick the color of the highlighter pen to be any color.)

An example of a WordPress blog with a Highlight button on.

Contact

Author: The Roohit Team

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Description

• Flash Video player with rewinding
• Add video to the post when you’re writing it
• Add video to your comments
• Record video comment with a webcam
• Add Youtube video to your post
• Support for mp4,mpeg,mov,flv,3gp,avi
• Sidebar widget – recent videos
• WordPress MU is fully supported
• Share the video in more than 30 social services
• See what it looks like on Bubblecast blog

The plugin lets you and your users publishing video to your blog easily. When you’re editing your post you can click Bubblecast icon in Upload/Insert section, record or upload your video and have it embedded into the post immediately. Users can add video comments to your posts in the same way. You’ve got all the power of Wordpress plus video capabilities.

Settings

Enter you bubblecast login and password at Settings -> Bubblecast and click Save and Login.

Screenshots

Video in the post

Adding video comment

What would you like to do with this video?

Share the video in more than 30 social services. Thanks to http://www.gigya.com

Other Notes

Why do I want video in my blog?
For example you run a blog about cooking. You watched a TV show about cooking and thought: “Hey! I can record video recipes as well!”. You’ve recorded how you cooked a lobster, now you google for video plugin for Wordpress. Fortunately, you found Bubblecast video plugin, it took you 2 minutes to register, install it and post the video. You briefly looked through plugin’s features and was struck by another idea: “Hey! My readers can post their video recipes to comment mine. We can create a library of video recipes. I can even make money on that if I gather enough video clips”.

By this example I want to make emphasis on publishing capabilities of Bubblecast, this is what brings the power of User Generated Content to your blog.

Although it sounds like blogging for commercial purpose you can also imagine that you post your home video to your personal blog and your friends comment it with their own video clips.

More details can be found here: Bubblecast video plugin for Wordpress

Contact

Author: bubble-cast.com

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Description

1. >On any webpage, just type roohit.com/ before the URL address (e.g. http://roohit.com/google.com) and your mouse cursor instantly changes into a highlighter pen:
   • get a highlighter so you don’t have to type each time.
2. Select text, it gets highlighted in color
   • Optionally: mouse over to “Keep Private” that highlight, make comments, add tags etc.
3. Reload your website in a different browser, or – for more dramatic effect – from a different computer: see what you just highlighted automatically appear on your web-page
   • If you made any comments they would appear here too!

It IS actually VERY COOL

FEATURES:

• Super simplifies blogging for you
• Facilitates sharing for everyone
• Fully Customizable
• No downaloads required
• No registration needed
• Fast, Free, Easy
• No hassles

Faq

How difficult is it?
Easier than reading this page. A 5 year-old can personlize it, and see their changes at the same time! A difficulty rating of 2 out of 10, where 10 being the hardest.

What all can I personalize
Colors, Size, Title, AutoPlay, Speed, number of items to display, seperator properties, etc.

My widget seems to be cut-off?
Make sure that in your WordPress dashboard -> Plugins -> AutoPublish… -> Settings page: Height and Width on Page are THE SAME as the ‘actual height’ and the ‘actual’ width of the widget. Below the Height/Width values: click the respective links to see what the values should be FOR YOU. (This happens when a user changes the size of the widget and forgets to tell WordPress of the new values)

What platforms are supported other than WordPress?
You can add the My Highlights widget to any webpage: on your Profile Page on Social Networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Xanga, Tagged, Bebo, BlackPlanet, and many more!

Glossary
MicroBookmark: a short url (e.g. http:/rooh.it/warSux) that goes directly to the highlights on a page.(Power users can think of it as reader defined anchor tags with highlights)

MicroShare: the ability to share just a small snippet highlighted. This could be as – embedded highlights (in email, or webpage) with a MicroBookmark, or – just highlights, with a MicroBookmark to the actual page so as to maintain the context and credibitlity.

MicroSave: the ability to save interesting parts of any web page automatically

MicroBlog: aka the “My Highlights” widget – allows users to automatically blog about the interesting things they saw on the Internet.

You can add it to pretty much any blogging platform or CMS or any website, anywhere!

Screenshots

This is what the default widget looks like

Here’s an example of a WordPress site with a consisten maroon widget

His is how easy it is to personalize the look & feel. Make changes on the left, see the changes immediately take effect right next to it.

You can also add this to ANY social network such as Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, PlackPlanet …

Quick & dirty examples of widgets in different color, sizes etc. – sorry for putting some ugly ones here

This is what a Highlighted page looks like (you can pick the color of the highlighter pen to your taste)

An example of a WordPress blog with the Instant Highlighter BUTTON on it

Other Notes

“Instant Highlighter”
(Related WordPress widget)

• Put a highlighter button on your site
• anyone can highlight your website instantly.
• Very Viral – cuts through information overload.

Contact

Author: The Roohit Team

Author Homepage

Plugin Homepage

Description

Adds a tell a friend, Share/Bookmark/Email/Social Bookmarking button in a widget position. The service which is used is freetellafriend.com which supports e-mail address book, social bookmarks and favorites.

• Working demo
• WordPress Plugins

A bit about freetellafriend.com:

FreeTellaFriend is a free service to allow your visitors to share your website with their friends. The idea is simple; you place a ‘tell a friend’ button on your website, and when your visitor decides to tell their friend about your website, they click this button which then presents them with a straightforward form to e-mail their friends.

The great addition to FreeTellaFriend is your visitor can enter their e-mail username and password (we support major e-mail providers) and our system will automatically retrieve their contact list. Thereafter they can choose who to e-mail the website to. If one user decides to e-mail all their contacts, your website will be exposed to over 50 friends (on average).

The following is supported: Tell a Friend, Social Bookmarking and Add to Favorites.

Settings

1. Add the widget to your sidebar through the ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Wigdets’ Dashboard menu
2. Go to your widget and adjust the settings

Screenshots

The Tell a Friend page the user is forwarded to.

Contact

Author: Onur Kocatas

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