So a couple of Telligent folks, Scott Watermasysk, and Jason Alexander, now have Graffiti powering their blogs - which made me wonder why they didn't migrate their old posts (Scott did say he wanted a fresh start), so I ended up asking Jason about a migration, via Twitter, and he's looking into it using BlogML.

I'll be honest, there's something that makes both sites feel the same there... and I'm not sure what, but that could just be the simplicity in the skins and me knowing what software is running them - and given that I am still running with the default CS skin I should talk!

Until I saw this post by Rob Howard I kind of thought that Graffiti would just be their backdoor into a new platform, whereby they'd close off the source (they have left it open for developers), and given Scott's Graffiti FAQ talks about using extensibility points in the FAQ, I was wondering if we were just entering a place where WebParts would make up add-ons for this product.

So I thought this was their way of bringing across a new platform, closing off the source, and then maybe along the lines adding in a forum, some galleries, and turning it into the next Community Server.

So the line that Rob has in his blog is interesting to me:

A question I'm hearing from a lot of our interested customers is: will it integrate with Community Server? All I can say right now is "wait and see" :)

I'm interested to see this inside Community Server, because from the videos Graffiti looks like it's very easy to play with and get something to look the way you want it to, to add pages, and get a good site up and going.

It'd be interesting to see some of the drag and drop placement, and parts used in CS user profiles and things, so if you wanted to develop a social networking site ala Facebook or MySpace, you could use the profile pages as your base user pages, and link your blogs, forums and galleries from that direction.

I will say though, I did post an entry a while back, before I had really played with Facebook at all, mentioning that I preferred the idea of a Guestbook being based on a closed Forum for that user, so that entries could be elevated to more public forums - well playing with Facebook, there is a guestbook that is called the Wall.

I'm not sure it can move posts between users, groups,etc - but it is set up to handle private chat between users, and having a guestbook for a group - so it's at least got that going for it.  I'm still not sure I'd use Facebook an awful lot though - and the people I do see on there using it are playing Vampires and Drinking Games, so... yeah, less of the social ;)