I have been working with Bernard Gilly\'s AlphaUserPoints - http://alphaplug.com since 2008 and it has had overwhelming fan fair among Joomla Users especially those who have invested in JomSocial, such as myself.
Bernard has not actively developed rules for JomSocial mainly because it is not Open Source, I can\'t blame him for that. However he had expressed an interest in developing rules for Joomunity when I had presented that component as an alternative to JomSocial. This has not been gone anywhere primarily due to the adaption of Joomunity among the users.
I have been developing and maintaining the rules for JomSocial for AlphaUserPoints as a donationware (buy me a beer for USD$5 or more).
I have emailed Bernard Gilly with my proposal of looking at Anahita and Nooku and developing his products to work with Anahita seamlessly, I would be more than willing to help in the development of the rules using the AlphaUserPoints API.
I\'m anticipating a favorable response from Bernard this week on my proposal as I would like for him to be apart of the partnership we spoke about #suggestions
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Dale-Kurt Murray
Rastin Mehr
It is not finished yet, but it will be once we deploy our client\'s project.
Cyndy Prilly
Socialables.com is working on a Gifts system for Jomsocial that\'s very attractive.
Rastin Mehr
having a feature for the sake of having it won\'t work. A currency has to have a value before people start collecting it.
Unknown Person
absolutely!
imho such a \"user points\"/currency feature is a key feature for most community projects. the guys at www.nordmograph.com have developed a plugin where you can pay your VirtueMart order with JomSocial or Alpha User Points. this is definitely a step in the right direction.
I would love to see such a currency system with Anahita Social Engine.
Cyndy Prilly
And, since I have a large ZenCart shop already... why do I want Virtuemart too? And I don\'t really want to \"sell\" my items for userpoints. I\'d rather have real cash. I\'m not into giving out a lot of freebies. Unless it\'s little items I don\'t want anyway such as the miniature bubblebath squirt guns. :)
I\'m just saying all that to throw in another perspective. I do like the \"gifts\" idea. It\'s the typical Facebook app where they waste a lot of time on silly stuff and enjoy doing it.
Unknown Person
I think there should be 2 extensions/plugins/applications.
- one for the gift stuff, maybe something like a simple gift shop where admins can create gifts in categories
- one as a plugin for the most common e-commerce platforms/components like virtuemart, magento etc... for us it would make a great sense to barter Anahita User Points for e.g. Magento products (virtual or real products). whoop! that would rock the community!
best regards!
Cyndy Prilly
Yes, I agree that the \"gifts\" idea is a bunch of monkey business. It\'s not the kind of thing that impresses me either, but in collectors clubs or teen groups it does go over and they get a kick out of it. I\'ve noticed that adults are more inclined to do Gifts if the graphics are especially pretty.
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Rastin Mehr
I also think people should be able to donate their points to other members or new members too.
Rich Vazquez
http://publishing2.com/2007/08/16/the-huffington-post-allows-top-commenters-to-become-bloggers/
Driving quality interaction and having the host site's editors acknowledge higher quality on top frequency of posting and having other posters follow you or rate your posts as high.
Dale-Kurt Murray
Virtual gifts (Game tickets) were left in locations (geo-location) and picked up by users of Gowalla and redeemed on game day.
Facebook recently joined up with Zynga which I believe will be the launch platform for Facebook Credits within Zynga games.
nick balestra
I personally have studied the social graph theories and concepts in depth while we were designing and experiemtning such a generic system with the folks at beyounic almost 2 years ago based on this:
shortly: We have nodes and links in the graph, (stories travel from node to node across links). We can say that links can be weaker or stronger (follower, leader, mutual) as starting point (normally you weight the link also by the time a node rely on it, etc and also nodes with more strong links can be of more relavanc ein the graph, etc..). Then we have stories, this occours when somekind of action is taken, and i think is like on foursquare when i unblock a new city or i am the first to check in, or whatsoever, after i write here on the discussions, after i follow somebody and so on, in other words stories are then nothing more then points(when a story is writtend and propagated is when the points get rewarded).
If we then insert a weighting system inside link of the graph, and define points for type of story we get a primitive but genery social graph point system. Then applications or implementation of the anahta framwork can be used in different ways depending on what you want to achieve, design and what is your social app project.
This si not just personal, as we are talking about social graph theories, means that the more links the network has (and thereefore the lower the degree of separation is) and the more powerfull and healthy the netowrk is. Inf act the total total sum of points in the system can tell you something about the netowrk itself too.
I have many indepths thoughst about this things from all of our studies at beyounic back in those years, if anyone is interesting we can carry on the conversation, but i really would love to hear from you guys, what you think?
@rastin - giving (donating) points to other may generate more points again in such a system depending on the implementation, I personally think i will separate points from credits as points are more about the value of anode itself. I therefore think that the actual karma plugin listening to events is a good start.
More studies needs to be done in this directions and experiemnts too, but i think that enabling point and weight inside a graph is not just about buying credits or virtual goods, or whatsoever, is in fact muuch muuch more, is in fact putting mathematics inside networks and i think this would provide a huge amount of interesting data to be studied...