Blogging Roller

First, some social software links.

• BuddyPress — Creating a Social Network based on Wordpress MU
  "There is talk of BuddyPress and DiSo essentially being the same thing. DiSo, from what I’ve read so far, is all about distributing your user-generated content first using Wordpress as the central tool. BuddyPress is more about turning Wordpress (MU in fact) itself into its own niche social network."
• Elgg: the open source social networking platform
  "Elgg is an open-source social networking platform. It offers blogging, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well"
• Cisco's Social Networking Strategy Comes Into Focus - ReadWriteWeb
  CISCO's Entertainment Operating System (EOS) is a "platform that will be used to deliver video and other multimedia content to online community properties" with "social networking and content recommendation"
• BadMagicNumber: Shipping software
  "Custom vertical social network, with feed integration" - based on Java, ROME and PostgreSQL
• The Blog Squad: your music. your friends. your life.
  "Social music network" with blogs powered by Roller
• IBM demos ‘On Demand Workplace’
  "Employees have their own profiles based on content and function. Personalization is also allowed via imported Google Gadgets and RSS feeds" with screen shots
• Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
  "The most-hyped site right now, Facebook, is the 'Iron Chef' of the Internet."
• Micro Persuasion: Reader Integrates Google's Stealth Social Net: The Address Book
  "Google Reader became the latest Google service to leverage the Gmail contact database and become more social."

And second, some feel-good PHP, Rails and Linux links.

• Michael Kimsal: Continued sad state of PHP development
  "with every release also comes fears of tiny, sometimes undocumented, changes that break existing code, and often for no solid reason"
• ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)
  "If anyone had known Rails was that unstable they would have laughed in his face. Think about it further, this means that the creator of Rails in his flagship products could not keep them running for longer than 4 minutes on average."
• Linux defector says RHEL zero, Sun Solaris hero
  "Solaris ultimately has a lower acquisition cost because it includes features that users are likely to purchase separately in a Linux environment."

Marcus Crafter has written-up his experience moving his blog content from MovableType to Typo and all the code he used to do the job -- an excellent example of using the XML-RPC based MetaWeblog API from Ruby.