8 hours ago on azrul posted on twitter a tasty treat about a new product his company is working on, and a link to a teaser website (http://jomsocial.com).
The product is JomSocial, a social networking component for Joomla! According to the webite, JomSocial will include the following features:
- Custom user profile
- Personal messaging system
- Join and create interactive user groups
- Friend-buddy system
This alone would be powerful and exciting, but if you look at the sample image in the banner on the website, there is another top menu option called Apps. If this reffers to a system of plugins to integrate with other components, then JomSocial could really shake things up.
For those who don’t know, Azrul is the maker of MyBlog and JomComment which are some of the most widely used components in the Joomla! Community.
I am personally a big fan of their work, and use both components above on my main Joomla! website. If Azrul can bring the same elegance to JomSocial as they do to MyBlog and JomComment, we are in for a treat.
It is also worth noting that the Azrul team has been very good with prividing Community Builder plugins for their existing components. This is perhaps why they have developed JomSocial, to create what they couldn’t get in CB.
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Typo fixed in first paragraph. Apologies to anyone who saw it.
Sounds great considering it’ll probably integrate perfectly with myblog, but there’s also another promising community component for Joomla and it actually just came out yesterday.
Check it out:
http://www.joomunity.org/
Note: I’m not affiliated with Joomunity or anything
It’s the community dedication to the positive growth of Joomla Developer Trends that keep it going.