I was was recently contacted by a developer who wanted some help hacking JomSocial core code. Within JomSocial privacy setting page, he wanted to add some of his own form elements, which would affect some privacy setting of his application.
What? hacking JomSocial core files ? NOOOOO! Really, you don't have to do that bro! Let me show you easy way to extend any JomSocial form with your own content, all from within a plugin.
The year 2011 has definitely been a good year for our friends at JPeople! May 2011 marked their 1st birthday celebrated by their growth of nearly 7,000 members, 1604 photos, 443 videos, 513 Groups and 57 categories and still counting! JPeople is the place for Joomla! community to meet, share and enrich their Joomla! experience. We at JomSocial are pleased to wish them happy birthday and happy growing!
We actually feel really proud to be part of the project. As developer for the social network component that power the JPeople site, nothing gets us more excited than to see it bringing Joomla! community closer together. We really want to see Joomla! community to have the most amazing time in any Open Source project in the world! Having said that, software plays only a small part. Great work by the site admins and your participation bring this site alive.
If you haven’t done so, check out the JPeople site and join them at http://people.joomla.org/ and be part of the awesome movement happening right now!
When 2.2 was released a couple of weeks back, quite a few people were shocked to see the wall plugin is no more. Let me assure you that this is a major step forward and is something we should celebrate!
The "wall" has been with us since the first release of JomSocial. With the release of 2.2, we have decided to integrate comment-on-profile, (which is normally the job for the wall plugin) into the stream itself. So, instead of having a separate section for those messages, it now flows nicely into your personal social stream. As an added bonus, it now gains the new 'like' and 'comment' feature from the stream.
This is just the beginning. We really want to make friend-to-friend interaction more fluid and fun. If you guys have a fresh new idea, drop it at our uservoice page at http://uservoice.jomsocial.com . At the mean time, noticed that we have upgraded jomsocial.com itself to the latest 2.2 build. Go ahead and play around with it.
You know how developers are. Once they get into the development "flow", they would be so focused on their work that they hate to stop even for a moment to blog or even take a shower.
We have been working super hard on JomSocial 2.2, so focused on our work to a point that we are a little quiet and people started to wonder if we actually work at all! Ironic.
So, after a hot shower this morning, I feel that I should share with everyone something that we have been working very hard on. The shining new activity stream! I'll just let the picture do the talking.
"Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. "
We have recently discovered a security issue where attackers might be able to execute arbitrary JavaScripts. We recommend all of our customers to apply the patch immediately. We have released patches for version 1.6.x, 1.8.x and 2.0.x
Our current toolbar for JomSocial isn't ideal. I will be the first to admit that. The main problem with current design is that all the main social objects, such as the photos, videos, groups and events are hidden under the 'Application' tab. The reason behind this decision is that, JomSocial was originally designed so that it can fit within 650-pixel wide site. There are simply not enough space to fit all those words.
The solution is rather simple. Some things don't really need explaining, IF we can get nice icons for them. So, here is our take, on a potentially new design for the toolbar.
When we started JomSocial, we built it around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. When you have control over what you share, you want to share more. When you share more, the world becomes more open and connected.
Ok, it wasn't me who wrote that paragraph. That was some billionaire, somewhere. But, while sharing is a good thing, we understand that there are certain things that you much prefer to keep to yourself or share it, just among your trusted friends.
Currently, JomSocial supports basic privacy level when it comes to your personal information. You can select to share all your information either to the public, site members, or friends. In the upcoming 2.2 however, we are giving you a complete control over every single detail of your personal data. For each custom field, you can now decide who you want to share it with. You might want to tell the world which country you're from while keeping your birthday to yourself.
