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done. Actually the reason why i was looking at the code was to see if I could add a twitter feed e.g. `http://search.twitter.com/search.rss?q=wordpress` and somehow not have the forum icon showing in the activity feed but the icon of the original author of the “tweets”

this is in the google:image_link entry so I was thinking if “groups_record_activity” handles something like “avatar” , have to look in to it

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I dont know for sure but if I go to { group url}/admin/external-blog-feeds without being logged in i can edit the rss feeds.

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same problem here can be viewed on http://almanac.farmvillechicken.com

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Thanks @nuprn1 @dwenaus

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I just found this discussion. Interesting

In the past I did some posts in http://edward.de.leau.net/about/brainstorm and http://edward.de.leau.net/about/idea (not all of them are applicable though).

But i think my scope goes wider than just the semantic web and open stack integration.

My main focus is the end goal which is why i once created http://householdframework.org but never came to it to really expand on this.

It’s nice to see another step closer to this direction.

I think we’re heading in a certain direction. IBM has opened the connected planet initiative. It means that everything will be connected with everything. The problem is that the large companies are mainly focussed on other companies and not on households. But households are little companies. They face the same problems as any other organizations.

Households until now have been immature. They have an addressbook while companies have CRM systems. They have a grocery list while companies have ERP systems. they have no requirements management, no configuration management and they don’t do projects.

Households do use software, unfortunately they have to buy them in a store, whole no household group ever made a list of requirements first and only then a bunch of software writers would write a solution matching those requirements.

Now what are the use cases present in a household?

But most of important of all, they lack any processes while companies have been doing process improvement for years.

The funny thing is that households, companies, countries are scalable organizations. You find the same processes though only on a larger scale. Large enterprises have been able to invest a lot of money to invent wonderful things. I think many of these can be scaled down to household level. The benefit of this is that a household can easily grow to a company to a enterprise and already know that the architectural patterns behind it are correct.

Problem is households are chaos and are lacking budget.

Some households members though have already installed a server in their home. And some software. They are represented as nodes but they lack both professional software and processes.

So how are we going to improve households? One thing we know is that many household members are at least part of a social network. Unfortunately there is not much coding we can do there. Intuitively many household members have started a `weblog`.

What they are actually doing when `weblogging´ is representing pieces of their requirements hierarchy whether it is about their goals, interests, project in their households, todo items it boils down to an unstructured representation of something that could be somewhat more structured. They auto discover their goals.

So we have to treat each household as a `node`, and we also have create an architectural reference household framework on which each household can leverage to pick out the elements to create their own implementation.

And yes, of course that includes their social network also. But also their budget management, the goals of the household and the budgets the household assigns to certain posts to reach those goals.

So… uhm… no i’m not drunk p.s.: http://edward.de.leau.net/why-the-whole-world-is-wrong-about-weblogs-20081117.html (why the whole world is wrong about weblogs)

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@JeffSayre: thanks.

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I am with many sites on MediaTemple Grid and it is pretty good. However some applications really have an impact on your usage. For instance the chatbar scripts really have an high impact. When I started using them I had to pay $150 in overusage each month.

Now I moved to MediaTemple Virtual Server dedicated virtual base and I have endless problems. The main problem is with the “othersockbuf” which has a soft limit of 1.433.738 and a hard limit of 2.662.538. Each time it hits that border the server dies. Which is NOW multiple times a day that I have to reboot the virtual server.

I’ve looked around the web but I could not find a solution. I really have no clue. So maybe i have to to somewhere without this limit.

UPDATE: I have simply clicked “update server from BASE to RAGE” and it seems all my problems are over…. (I also changed the mysql.cnf, killed spamassasin, killed watchdog, killed dns server, smb, secure SMTP…)

A simple solution but it works grin (although it now costs me $100 a month to run a buddypress site).

I also ran: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/816/%28dv%29+3.5+Auto-Tuning+your+server (MT has some great amount of docs on performance tuning)

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It’s very weird. I really dont get why it does not work. When I am on a member page I can use the firefox webdeveloper toolbar to change the html code.

So I can change the url above on the fly. But any combination just delivers the same message back from FB. I think it stops at /members/ and does not read the membername.

Also when I go to : http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like I can the urls directly and any member url delivers the same button.

I think I need to add something behind it to get it to work, index.php did not work.

(also crossposted on http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?pid=224533#p224533)

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just some examples:

http://farmvillechicken.com/members/admin/ : “<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://farmvillechicken.com/members/admin/&layout=st&quot;

http://farmvillechicken.com/members/fluffymonsters/ : “<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://farmvillechicken.com/members/fluffymonsters/&layout=st&quot;

etc… the URL the permalink produces seems to be ok (I think) but according to FB they all are the same URL…

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Yes modemlooper… just scroll down on that page and read the last comment…………..!

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sorry the php code after href= dropped off in this post it is ofcoruse bp_user_link

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This is an older posting but since it comes up #1 in Google and anyone searches for it:

There are spaces before the XML tag. You need to make sure those empty lines are not present.

They are caused by plugins, code, whatever that has extra characters before or after the php tags.

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I’ve let it run for a little while and the new key works.

Thanks Etiviti !!!! (cant give out kudos)

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I copied and pasted the fix however… see: http://farmvillechicken.com/ on the left you see the entries with minimal 5 duplicate entries.

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thanks

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I’m using the plugin “wp-external-links-bar” which makes a bar appear for external links but only for posts and pages.

Inside this plugin I added “http://farmvillechicken?&#8221; before

$items[$key][‘blogurl’] = ‘http://farmvillechicken.com?&#8217;.$rss->channel[‘link’];

and

‘‘ .

to make that happen.

I wonder if it is possible to add some kind of filters/plugin settings for this to make it easier to upgrade.

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unfortunately this thread comes #1 in Google when searching on the topic…

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@anointed

I took a first look and I decided I let their people do a $19 per month (1 month) install of the hosted option to check it out. When I dive in the tech specs on their site: i’m glad that I found the first professional solution out there.

I did not find anything even remotely comparable up until now.

It is expensive though. I only have very limited budget.

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Because this is the thread about it I found 2 more that were not mentioned:

http://www.123flashchat.com/web-messenger-chat.html ( i dont know if it integrates with buddypress)

http://www.gixawchat.com/

and this developer project:

Gmail/Facebook Style jQuery Chat

123flashchat looks interesting it says:

<script language="javascript">

var username_123webmessenger=<?php echo $_SESSION['user'];?>

</script>

to integrate it uhm have to lookup for buddypress/wp what the current logged in username is.

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ok chmod config dir then ran the makeconfigfile procedure manually by placing it in a separate php – works.

Back to the topic of this thread:

I tried it but I think users who are not logged in are not engaged in an instant conversation as is now is on the site. I feel they should be “instantly” be part of the community and have the chatbar open on any part like a constant open shout box.

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I click on “activate site wide” and I get “can’t open file” on an empty screen. However when I go back it is activated site-wide. When I then click on chat I go to my admin screen and a chat window but that says “logged out” and it keeps reloading the page. the top bar does contain the 2 chat options. When I click the other option, the shoutbox, it uhm does nothing. So I think the initial cant open file caused this. I still have it activated see it on http://farmvillechicken.com ( though bowob is also running and cometchat is also installed but not currently active………)

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I would like move certain postings in groups to other groups including the replies on the postings, is that possible?

A “move button” Hmmm I guess I will post an RFC in TRAC.

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I think….. a buddypress chatbar that would work the same as bowob would be very cool to have this is a nice start: http://ryan.rawswift.com/sandbox/jixedbar-0.0.2/demo/

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So… I had bowob on my site which I still think is the most fastest and the one users most like. Its also the simplest to install: just activate the plugin sitewide and presto. It was however also the most expensive it costs 40 dollar per 150.000 loads. I think they need to change their pricing schema because that is really a) expensive b) confusing. The cost was mainly why I looked for another solution.

– arrowchat does not have a teamroom and no bp integration and as far as i can see its not out yet

– wibiya provides a nice toolbar but the login is a hassle to login via e.g. facebook and another via twitter, i want to have the user account from my own site

– i now have cometchat enabled but users find the “common chatroom” almost never. I currently have the problem that it keeps counting online users even when they are long gone

I have not tried webbychat yet maybe thats an idea to test that one also concerning the load. Bowob took abou 50% of my server resources when people where chatting happily away and basically cometchat does the same.

also notice that ALL of these even bowob which resides on another server take a huge load on your server. It pretty much does not matter which one you choose.