Here’s a quick (<2:30) screencast showing the basic functionality of Facebook Connect Social Shopping, a Magento Extension Optaros developed and released under an open source license. (Click the fullscreen icon to see it in a more legible size).
What do you think?
What’s holding retailers back from letting users get reviews from their social graph, not just from random strangers?
What would you like to see in future releases?
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.