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COM.lounge releases RPX for Plone

Did you always wanted to be able to let your Plone users login with their Twitter, Facebook, Google or MySpace account? Now you can!

With our open source product plonesocial.auth.rpx you can easily add this ability to your Plone site! It builds upon JanRain’s RPX service and plugs it into Plone.

The following screencast will show you how it will look:

This will definitely make it easier for your users to be active on your side as no new account needs to be remembered!

For usage and installation instructions simply check out http://comlounge.net/rpx/

Christian Scholz joins the Python Software Foundation

We are proud to announce that our own Christian Scholz is now a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). The PSF is the legal framework for Python and holds all the intellectual property rights and controls the direction Python is taking.

To become a member you need to be nominated by an existing member and voted in by all the members. Thus it’s a honor to be part of this group!

If you want to learn more about the Python Software Foundation simply check out their Homepage.

COM.lounge releases Twitter @Anywhere for Plone

We are proud to annonce the first release of Twitter @Anywhere for Plone, an open source addon for the Content Management System Plone which integrates Twitter’s new @Anywhere platform.

The features:

• Allows automatic autolinking of Twitter usernames.
• Allows automatic hovercard display of Twitter usernames
• A portlet with a configurable Follow button
• A portlet with a configurable Tweetbox.

More to come in future releases.

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COM.lounge launches syntronik.de

COM.lounge is proud to announce syntronik.de, the first native implementation of an Agent Domain for the Open Grid Protocol.  After the first successful teleport of an avatar from the Second Life Grid to an OpenSim powered region done by Linden Lab and IBM engineers this is another important step into a truly open metaverse without walled gardens.

syntronik.de, as we call this Agent Domain, is the component which holds your avatar account and allows you to connect to any region supporting the Open Grid protocol. You can even run your own region. Or you can download the source of this Agent Domain and run your own instance of it being a provider yourself.

Note though that this is a proof of concept only. The Open Grid Protocol is at it’s very beginning and in draft status right now. To learn more about the whole project and how it aims to be the HTTP for virtual worlds just visit our documentation area on syntronik.de.

The Open Grid Protocol is an open, distributed protocol for interconnecting virtual worlds. It is defined by the Architecture Working Group which was founded by Linden Lab and includes engineers from Linden Lab, IBM and other companies as well as individuals. It is open to everybody who is interested. The Open Grid Protocol is in draft state at the moment.

An Agent Domain is the part of the Open Grid which holds all the user accounts while a Region Domain is the actual 3D environment.

syntronik.de is build upon the Content Management System Plone and the Open Grid Library pyogp, both open source software. The source code which powers the syntronik.de Agent Domain will also be released shortly.

COM.lounge is Germany based consulting company specialized in virtual worlds, Python, Zope, Django and Plone development.

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