CALTRADE
You know, this is nice, I'm glad someone is having fun, but since you have put this information together for entertainment purposes, could you also do it for business? I would like to see a "feature matrix" with all those products and capabilities you listed.

Though I didn't see it on your list, an organization I have had my eye on for some time as a possible customer for Dolphin technology just deployed Joomla for their data collection and event management system. Now I know Joomla see more - even with all the social mods, doesn't do as much as Dolphin, but now they are there.

The delay of D7 is causing lost opportunities like this. While it will be harder to knock out Joomla then it would have been to propose Dolphin in the first place, can anyone tell me the major downsides to Joomla as opposed to Dolphin so I can at least be prepared to make this case. I was planning to post this on the forum anyway but given the subject of this blog post it seemed appropriate.
Andrew Boon
Joomla is a great platform, but way more generic than Dolphin. It's more content-centric and lacks lots of social-interaction features that Dolphin has. There're different extensions/plugins for Joomla, but again, you'd spend a lot of time and effort to build a full-featured social network based on Joomla. That's BEFORE you get to the Flash apps/servers part.

I see Joomla as a more technically-challenging platform for content-centric sites, like corporate sites, news sites, etc. For social networks see more you need advanced profiles, media sharing, friends, chats, etc, etc. All that comes "out-of-the-box" in Dolphin.
spacecoasthot
I use joomla a lot and have been following the progress of something called Anahita Social Engine for Joomla (http://anahitapolis.com), which, like Dolphin 7, is in the "coming soon" stage. I will need to get rolling on my next project soon and at this point I think I will opt for whichever of the two is ready first. Anahita is talking December release. At the moment they have no demo available for the public, only screenshots, but the team definitely talks a good game and the project looks see more promising. I need to get rolling soon on my next project, and will probably opt for whichever is available first -- Dolphin 7 or Anahita -- as both appear suitable to my needs. My fallback is simply to build the site using Dolphin 6, although I guess that would be silly at this point. In any case, the relevant comparison is not Dolphin vs. Joomla (which is not by itself a social platform), but rather Dolphin vs. Anahita or Dolphin vs. JomSocial (which I have tried but wasn't thrilled with).
 
 
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