Posts tagged with: "socialspring"

As of commit 5fa0457 (on Thanksgiving Day 2008, nonetheless), Edge Rails is getting work done on having plugins as engines. An engine (as of now) is defined as a plugin that has an app/ folder, which includes controllers, helpers, models and views. There’s also support for plugin routes at this moment.

As of the commit mentioned above, Rails engines are not yet app slices. A slice, at least in my opinion, contains its own assets (public/) and its own migrations. In essence, a slice would have the same structure as a regular Rails app. Not sure what the core guys have planned, but also having support for these two would greatly improve on the value of writing engines.

This replaces the old components framework, and paves the way for a new way of writing re-usable Rails plugins. For example, the 15-minute blog screencast can easily be reworked to be an engine and re-used within multiple apps. You can also write engines for audio, video, maybe a wiki engine and so on.

We’ve been working on the problem of sharing code between multiple apps for quite some time now at Intridea, and I’ve also been talking about it a lot at RailsConf Europe with Michael Bleigh and at Bay Area Ruby meetups. The commits I’m noticing in core are great, hopefully soon there will be some more relevant work into officially namespacing the new code so that engines are distinct from plugins externally; storing them in vendor/engines or app/engines would also be good — a clean codebase is always something to look forward to.

Interesting fact: Merb’s had this for a while :)

Yoshi, Viq & I just returned from BlogWell, an event we proudly sponsored and was organized by our friends at GasPedal in San Jose, CA. It was an amazing event where we had a chance to meet with senior execs from WalMart, Home Depot, Cisco, Intel, Wells Fargo, and many other large companies. These execs shared their experience with managing their brands in the new social media world. The general theme was that these early adopters (often mavericks) overcame legal/regulatory concerns to establish corporate blogs, engage external bloggers, create a presence, and engagement in consumer social networks (e.g. twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube, etc.).

WalMart has launched several initiatives for external communication including a site called elevenmoms. They are also doing some really cutting edge stuff with internal communication tools for their 2.2 million associates. Another compelling use of social media was how Home Depot uses twitter and weather micro-site to help consumers during severe weather conditions.

More and more enterprises will use social applications (such as Present.ly and SocialSpring) to better engage with their customers, partners, and employees.

Intridea is pleased to announce the official release of SocialSpring, the world's most advanced white-label social networking platform. SocialSpring provides enterprise-grade solutions for social networking. Built on a modular and extensible platform, SocialSpring powered networks can easily integrate everything from photos and videos to forums and community questions. With an impressive list of features, Social Spring can power any social community.

See it in action! SocialSpring is the base of our Ruby community launched this week - Acts As Community - and we also have a demo installation available.

For more information, please visit http://www.socialspring.com

In collaboration with our good friends at Koanetic and Karlin Sloan, Intridea launches Committed Conversations (CC), a social networking site based on our SocialSpring platform. Committed Conversations is focused on actualizing individual and group commitments to personal, organizational and social transformation.

The community was launched today in support of the largest event in the history of the state of Washington: Seeds of Compassion. Seeds is an unprecedented gathering to engage the hearts and minds of the community by highlighting the vision, science, and programs of early social, emotional, and cognitive learning.

Anchored by the deep wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this community-focused event will celebrate and explore the relationships, programs, and tools that nurture and empower children, families, and communities to be compassionate members of society.

Each of the five days will provide the over 100,000 parents, educators, and business and community leaders in attendance an opportunity to better understand the real benefits of compassion, and concrete steps on how to bring compassion into their lives. In addition to His Holiness, participants include: Dave Matthews, Daniel Goleman, Daniel Seigel, Richard Davidson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Gottman, Rajendra Sisoda, and many, many other leaders in the fields of science, business and government.

Over 3 million individuals in 92 countries will be viewing the event live (or on-demand) on the webcast.

Committed Conversationsâ„¢ is committed to helping create a world in which every individual has Voice with which to declare their Commitments and Communities through which to explore and manifest those Commitments. We encourage you to join the network and make your commitments.

Intridea helped Geico launch Iheartcavemen.com – the web’s premier caveman dating site. This tongue-in-cheek take on the online dating scene allows gentlecavemen to post online profiles complete with customized caveman photos. The morphed photos can be virally distributed on dozens of social networks using the ClearSpring widget platform.

Iheartcavemen.com is based on Intridea’s SocialSpring platform. SocialSpring is an enterprise-level white-label social networking product. With SocialSpring, a company can quickly have a fully-featured custom social network in a fraction of the cost and development time of building a solution from scratch.

South by Southwest (SXSW) 2008 Launch

The site was developed in collaboration with our friends at iStrategyLabs. The site garnered A LOT of attention at the SXSW launch: Mashable, Valleywag - So easy, a caveman can do it, Valleywag - Even the cavemen are getting action

Today Intridea launched the private beta of acts_as_community, a community site for Ruby and Rails developers.

acts_as_community is a place for Rubyists and Rails developers to gather and interact. Our hope is to bring the community closer together in collaboration and communication so that everyone can benefit from others' experiences.

If you would like to join email us at aac@intridea.com for the beta key.