buddycloud

buddycloud is group communication. Done Right.
 Great social features, realtime updates, archives and message revocation.
 Magically simple.

completely unlike a social network, completely unlike email

buddycloud is designed as a completely new way to share online: your buddycloud channel connects you to the world's realtime conversation. Follow topic channels and plug into a community of experts. Create your own topic channels, and share them with the world - or make it private and choose who can view it.

buddycloud channels - for you, for your team, for everyone

buddycloud's easy to understand privacy model and strong encryption keep you safe online.

buddycloud is distributed by design: your data lives with you on your network. Simple.

buddycloud for your company

buddycloud helps your team take an idea, explore it and make things happen.

Keep information belonging to you or your company secure by running your own buddycloud inside your firewall. You control which other companies your buddycloud server connects to.

buddycloud for developers

tools and magic to build something incredible

easy to set up

Simple to set up packages for major operating systems. A great guide to setup and run your own buddycloud server in 60 minutes. Your users simply log on to https://buddycloud.your-domain.com or setup your buddycloud server now.

plays well with others

buddycloud is simple to integrate with your existing network, your user database and your own products. Just drop the code into your project and add imagination.

open ecosystem

buddycloud is built by and for thinkers and makers who care about openness.

buddycloud is built on opensource software. Developers add free components for you to use in your own project. buddycloud uses a suite of modern open technologies like HTML5, CoffeeScript, node.js, Δt and backbone.js. Learn more about developing on the buddycloud wiki.

buddycloud is built on open standards

buddycloud and the W3C, Mozilla Foundation, and XSF are working together to be the the strong foundation for an open social ecosystem.

Using open standards means that you don't have to depend on anyone else and can quickly finish your project using a wide range of free libraries.

where buddycloud is going

Android and iPhone clients

buddycloud knows how important mobile is. We have created a substantial framework for buddycloud on mobile devices. Now we are refining the Android and iPhone apps that bring you trusted location sharing and realtime updates with your channels.

buddycloud library

To add social features quickly to your next project, lib-buddycloud, a growing javascript library, will help you make your own buddycloud client easily. Drop in, dead simple.

media server

We know media sharing must be drag-n-drop easy and just work. We’re building some great media integration so you can share easily in your channel. How to get started.