The portal supports social networking—you can easily manage your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other social network accounts. In addition, you can manage your instant messenger accounts, such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Skype, and YM, smoothly.
Social office gives us a social collaboration suite on top of the portal a full virtual workspace that streamlines communication and builds up group cohesion. All components in social office are tied together seamlessly, getting everyone on the same page by sharing the same look and feel. Social office isn't another separate portal, but a specific instance of the portal.
The following figure depicts entities and their relationships among social networking, social coding, and social office. As you can see, the social networking plugin defines the entities MeetupsEntry for meet-ups entries, MeetupsRegistration for meet-ups registration, and WallEntry for wall entries. The social coding plugin defines...