Wonderosity

Well, one good side to not getting sleep (at least when at someone’s house with net access) is that I had more geek hours than usual in the last 24 hours. From 3:30 in the morning till 8:30, I have (from lame to coolest):

1. Learned the basics of the cool, opensource CMS (Content Management System) Joomla and created a new wonderosity.com site –check it out. As of now it has a links to all of my related projects, a few cool plug-ins, and some basic content and news items.

2. Two weeks ago I was doing some ’social media’ consulting for a non-profit that wanted to create a private, rich-media, social-networking site –kind of closed myspace world. I found quite a number of social-networking sites that offered what they want, but only three that seemed to allow the private/closed loop. I suppose this makes sense as most people want a social-networking space to meet other people –but I think a huge niche market is being missed here: people who don’t want to be overwhelmed by new relationships, but who want to connect more deeply with their niche member-group. Anyway, I narrowed it down to three sites/services: People Aggregator, GoingOn, and Ning.Com. I choose ning.com. To be honest, I’m too lazy to recall exactly all the reasons why –but I know one of the main reasons was it seemed to have the best balance between high functionality and easy of use/prettiness.
   Well anyway, last night I also created the community hub / media-exchange site for my new and upcoming Wonderosity show -I called it “Wonderosity People Portal”. Kinda cheezy, but I love the word Portal and I think it gets the idea across. Check it out here, though you might need to ask me for an invite if I decide to have it a closed group. I described the site on the page as:
   This is the soon-to-be community hub for the Wonderosity show (formerly the Bleeding Purple Podcast.) The new show is currently being re-vamped, but if you are curious as to what it will be like, please check out The Bleeding Purple Podcast to get a general sense. Otherwise, please feel free to start discussions, add your favorite quotes to the Quote Voter, add your questions and answers to ‘The Questioning’, and upload pictures and videos. You can also leave a voice message from your computer using the below MyChingo app, or call in a public voicemail using the SupCast app below (phone #s below.) Of course, there is the ever-geeky web-chat for whoever is on the page as well! Almost all media streams have RSS feeds, so feel free to subscribe. Thanks for stopping by!

3. I am REALLY excited about this one. Have you heard about TalkShoe? It’s doing what SkypeCasts are trying to do, but you can also: record the shows, have people call in with regular phones or VOIP, have a instant-message included, color-coded timeline, and apparently get paid for doing your show as well! I have JUST found out about this and am testing it out –but as I am very much about learning through dialogue, you can guarantee I will be playing with, using and writing more about this later. Check it out and download the client ASAP –look, evenetually, for some kind of Wonderosity show to pop up there in the next week or so.

Well, it is getting to the limit I commited to going to bed –though I am finally really excited about some projects and I wish I could geek out all night long. This, of course, would not be conscious computing and my arse would get kicked by wife and life. This was a quick entry so I’ll probably have to fix some typos and links later…let me know what you think!

Tags: joomla, wonderosity, people aggregator, goingon, ning.com, ning, skypecast, talkshoe, wonderosity.com

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