Hivos, a humanistic development organisation from the Netherlands, recently updated their eZ publish website to version 4.0.1. The updated site makes extensive use of the personal/community extensions, developed by Contactivity bv.

The personal extension includes the following functions: user profiles, blog, notification and (social) bookmarking, personalized homepage with widgets and private messaging. The community extension includes: a member directory, integration with YouTube (Zend Gdata library) and Flickr, a function to import and invite new users, social networks, jabber integration for site reports (user registration, confirmation). In addition, a payment gateway extension has been developed to allow Dutch users to make donations via the Dutch banking system iDEAL. The site makes extensive use of the objectrelationbrowse datatype. See also http://www.hivos.nl/dut/Hivos-actueel/Hivos-nieuws/19-juni-Hivos-viert-haar-40-jarig-bestaan!