Video from WordCamp San Francisco featuring Andy Peatling, the creator of BuddyPress, showing how it can be themed, extended, and used:
(via BuddyPress Developers Blog)
Also interesting that they’re using the VideoPress framework (discussed here) to deliver the videos from WordCamp.
Related:
Back in July of 2007, Andy Peatling posted on his blog about creating a social network called ChickSpeak on top of WordPressMU, the multi-user version of the popular open source blog platform . It was a compelling possibility – compelling enough that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) hired him to work on it full time.
BuddyPress 1.0, the result of that effort, was released on April 30th of this year, and is an option that should be seriously considered anywhere a new content-centered community is being built.
While many consulting firms have talked about the impending rise of social shopping, few have really done much to advance the conversation. We all know that today’s ecommerce experience lacks sociality: the real challenge is to find a way to restore or embody the social aspects so critical to shopping in the offline world without overcomplicating the online experience or engaging the privacy concerns of end users.