In 2010 I decided to make a rollout with buddypress version 1.2.5 /wordpress for the class of 1985 of my former school. As mentioned below a privacy plugin was missing. There was a expectation for a release of that plugin in a short period of time. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case. As the 25th anniversary [...]

Nach vielen Jahren mit sehr positiven Erfahrungen beim Internethosters all-inkl steht nun ein Wechsel des Webhosters an. All-inkl hat bei Bedarf (was allerdings kaum der Fall war) guten Support geleistet, das Kundeninterface zur Einstellung der Konfiguration ist nicht schön, aber durchaus praktisch und gut bedienbar. Ausfallzeiten konnte ich 2010 keine feststellen und das Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis ist [...]

Update 29-08-2010: This review is based on version 1.0beta8 of OpenAtrium. The system is still in beta and some of the issues were still not addressed until now. Even no feedback in the forums e.g. (SpacesUI) telling the users (testers) that this is a topic we will get in the focus – or not. This [...]

Change of license with version 1.5 of sharetronix Sharetronix decided to switch from Affero GPL to their own license. They said that Sharetronix remains free for personal communities. See here. ———————————————- This review is based on version 1.4.2 of sharetronix No difference to version 1.4.1. ———————————————- This test is based on version 1.4.1 of sharetronix [...]

Update 15-05-2010: This review is based on version 0.9.2 of Status.net The information of the test with version 0.9.0 beta 3 and 0.9.1 is still OK (see below). Now I will wait for the implementation of the privacy settings as mentioned in the product plan: Privacy. We’re going to have to deal with privacy at [...]

This review is based on Elgg V1.7 Elgg is an open source social networking system. It started 2004 and was build with the target in mind to create a social networking platform. This is the main difference to systems like buddypress or openatrium. Their core systems have a different focus. For elgg it is an [...]

I found a real good article from Jeff Sayre about decentralized Semantic Microblogging. He describes a concept were you are the owner of your data and the microblogging service. I like that idea as it helps to avoid data silos and the requirement to sign up for different services to get in contact with all [...]

Today I had something that I would call a Black Sunday. I’m working in the computer business and I know the reason for backups and how and how often to create them. I like to do these tasks automatically (they are boring and this way it is much easier that I did not forget it). [...]

I remember the times when no one was really thinking about using a browser instead of applications on the local PC, notebook or mobile phone… the performance of the internet access was low. (Wireless) Broadband was expensive or not available. the browser was a handicap as the functionality was not good enough to use it [...]