Cloud Based Networking and Productivity Platform

A cloud based technology platform for global networking, collaboration and individual and group productivity and project management tools, such as: basecamp, evernote, EtherPad, diagramming, wire framing, white board and video conferencing Every user, group, organization has a profile which acts as the face for the entity on the network. The owner of the entity should be able to modify the content on the profile from time to time. The relationship management features will provide ability to users to follow others and connect to others. This feature forms the basis of social graph. The users can view other users contacts that have been exposed and walk through their connections to find connections with others. The user can perform many activities on the network, not just befriending others, communicating with them, publishing blogs but also activity in various applications. The activities can originate from a user, group or organization and then are delivered to N different entities. The user should be able to communicate with others through messaging. Messaging can be one to one or broadcast to group or many people. Applications can also use the messaging system to send messages and notifications to users. This application will allow the users to publish blogs linked to their profile. The users can collaboratively work on preparing the blog and publishing it to communities. The communities can have moderation for publishing the blog. Blogs can also be pushed/pulled in to/from other blog networks. We will be using the Scala based Lift framework to build HTML5 ready the web interface. The application backend will be made using scala actors making it easy to design the system in a way that it can be distributed easily. The UI will be served by Lift actors while the communication with database will be handled by an intelligent actors based distributed database framework like Glizzard. We can utilize the in-built Ajax and Comet features of Lift to build a rich and highly interactive user interface. The database chosen is MongoDB for its reliability and scalability. MongoDB, JSON, NoSQL, OpenSocial, Scala, AJax, Glizzard, Nuxeo, Lift support for RESTful services, Gadget Server / part of the Shindig project, RabbitMQ, Hadoop / map reduce Experience with big data, semantic web and natural language processing a big plus