Kevin Tunis

After several attempts to start from scratch on the Graffiti CMS theme, I opted to modify the “Gulf Coasting” theme from Kevin Harder. Looking to make this theme more “social”, I would like to find a way to break down the walled gardens of the social networks and make my own site the principal that I work from. Based on an article I wrote back in 2003, I still feel that each person should have an application similar to instant messaging unlike the browsers we have today that you will access using a mobile or desktop device. Within this application you will be able to add your video, word processor, spreadsheet and you should be able to have conversations with others at random. Your data will be stored in offsite knowledge databases that will have the capacity to transfer video/audio to text to make these accessible in search. This is one of the reasons I have been looking at Silverlight; after some testing I think I can make it determine which video application I am on live: Ustream or Qik and it will show it on the site. I have also been looking at Windows Live Messenger as I can add it to the site to emulate the instant messenger experience through some workarounds; this lets me “tweet” to/from Twitter though sometimes this conversation is one sided which means it still needs some work. I am also looking for a widget that works with Graffiti CMS that is similar to Chris Pirillo’s “Social Me” page http://chris.pirillo.com/social-me/. Anyway this is an update on what I have been doing on the site using Graffiti CMS and this is very much a work-in-progress.