WordPress
Mike Little,
WordPress,
Feb 10, 2004
I have been agitating, in an informal way (I should cobble my scattered comments into an article), on Orkut and RSS-Dev (and here, a bit) about the idea of a distributed, semantically oriented XML based social network. The bits and pieces are coming together, slowly. One such piece is WordPress, which the site advertises is "a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability." Written in PHP and using MySQL, WordPress is, of course, free and open source (and I find it interesting that the commercial ventures into social networking always favour centralized, closed solutions, while the only open and distributed systems are being developed by the open source community. The same is true of content management - despite the eventual emergence of commercial ventures, RSS was lovingly nurtured for several years by the open source community before it became anything - the schism between open source and commercial isn't only about how software will be developed, it's (crucially) about what type of software will be developed). Anyhow, the new WordPress is in pre-release testing mode now, so get your changes in.
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