Hi,
I think if you go over the examples in the presentation page you'll see that virtually all content is from GLinks. If you take the example on significant-media.com you can see that the plug-in is used for a 'personal page' and for a 'blog' type page. In each case all the information is from GLinks.
I can understand why you think of community but it's the word rather than the application that makes you think that. The plug-in is a very interesting tool for creating a community where people talk about and show other people in the community what they do and who they are. I suppose it can be compared to the MySpace type page to a certain extent. GCommunity here is just used as a single sign-on (SSO)
All the data that is displayed on the example pages above is from user specific tables in GLinks and not GCommunity including the user presentation page or about me page. Photos for example are not currently handled by GCommunity. The only instance I use GCommunity is for the name but that could be taken from GLinks as well.
I haven't really gone that much further with the plug-in yet but the examples above alone demonstrate how powerful it can be. In the above examples it is already used for both a user specific personal page and a user specific blog.
The fact that you can tailor globals to a specific user means that there is no limit to ways it can be used. You could envisage having a global that picked the persons last posts from a forum. You could have a global that picked up the persons last emails if you also use GMail. You could let users upload their own sounds/music/video to share with the community. There are other globals that could also be modified to a user specific version...
The difference between the two versions is due to a fairly complicated update that allows an admin to require text and images changes related to a user (the profile) to be stored (and not visible) until validated. Some sites may have younger visitors and need to restrict any illicit or illegal content from being published without their knowledge. There are advertisers that frown upon having illicit content appearing next to their adverts. This option is basically a safeguard for the admin of the site.
Cheers,
John
Significant Media
I think if you go over the examples in the presentation page you'll see that virtually all content is from GLinks. If you take the example on significant-media.com you can see that the plug-in is used for a 'personal page' and for a 'blog' type page. In each case all the information is from GLinks.
I can understand why you think of community but it's the word rather than the application that makes you think that. The plug-in is a very interesting tool for creating a community where people talk about and show other people in the community what they do and who they are. I suppose it can be compared to the MySpace type page to a certain extent. GCommunity here is just used as a single sign-on (SSO)
All the data that is displayed on the example pages above is from user specific tables in GLinks and not GCommunity including the user presentation page or about me page. Photos for example are not currently handled by GCommunity. The only instance I use GCommunity is for the name but that could be taken from GLinks as well.
I haven't really gone that much further with the plug-in yet but the examples above alone demonstrate how powerful it can be. In the above examples it is already used for both a user specific personal page and a user specific blog.
The fact that you can tailor globals to a specific user means that there is no limit to ways it can be used. You could envisage having a global that picked the persons last posts from a forum. You could have a global that picked up the persons last emails if you also use GMail. You could let users upload their own sounds/music/video to share with the community. There are other globals that could also be modified to a user specific version...
The difference between the two versions is due to a fairly complicated update that allows an admin to require text and images changes related to a user (the profile) to be stored (and not visible) until validated. Some sites may have younger visitors and need to restrict any illicit or illegal content from being published without their knowledge. There are advertisers that frown upon having illicit content appearing next to their adverts. This option is basically a safeguard for the admin of the site.
Cheers,
John
Significant Media
