Lead, Follow, Mutual (LFM) social graph - Anahita uses one of the most flexible methods of maintaining the relationships amongst people. Social Networks such as twitter.com, digg.com, and flickr.com also use the LFM social graph.

In this model, instead of enforcing people to either be mutually friends or completely disconnected, person A can subscribe to to the story feed of person B by following person B. In this case person A is the "follower" and person B is the "Leader". Person B may or may not reciprocate and follow A back. If person B does follow back, then both people are "mutually" subscribed to each other's stories.

Privacy Management - people can take control of their privacy on Anahita. There are 6 privacy levels: public, registered, followers, leaders, mutual, and myself only. Anahita framework API enables developers to implement privacy management for their custom social applications as well.

Story Feeds - activities of an Actor node (a person, group, or an event) are compiled as a list of story items. A story item can be tagged and commented on. People subscribe to each other's stories (activities) by "following" each other or by joining an event in order to follow the event's stories.

Dashboard - The dashboard view delivers the most recent stories and updates coming from the people that you are following, groups that you have joined, and content that you have subscribed to.

Comments - All Anahita Media and Story nodes can be commented on. In fact the Anahita Framework provides API to make any kind of node commentable, even the Actor nodes!

Tagging (folksonomy) * - Tags make finding relevant information on a social network a lot easier. A tag says a lot about a person, group, or event. All the Anahita nodes (Actors, Media, Stories, etc. ) can be tagged either by the owners, authors, or other registered members. That means people can tag discussion board topics, story feed items, photos, albums, people, etc.

Geolocation Support - All the Anahita nodes whether they are Actors, Media, or Stories have geolocation fields which can be utilized by location aware social applications. For example you can store and locate the origins of activity updates, uploaded media, or people on the google maps.

Public Messaging - public messaging on Anahita is done using the story feeds. If a person post a story item on her own feed, it is a "status update". If she posts a story item on somebody else's story feed, it is a "public message". From that point the conversation continues by posting comments on that story item.

Translatable User Interfaces - All the views and links within Anahita user interfaces are translatable. People have the option to select a language providing that additional language packages are installed on the system. To further extend the ability to translate your social network we recommend using the Nooku Content technology which enables a through translation of the entire website to as many different languages as you wish.

Fully Customizable Look & Feel - Anahita â„¢ is built using the Nooku â„¢ Framework that itself extends the Joomla! framework's template engine known as of the finest template engines available today for developing modern and branded user interfaces. All the html, css, and javascript code generated to render the Anahita user interfaces can easily be overwritten at the template level without having to use any intrusive and unusual hacks. That means developers and designers can customize the Anahita user interfaces exactly the way they want.

System and Email Notifications - Anahita Social Engine â„¢ displays a private list of notifications to you and also emails you system notifications for let's say when you are being followed by a new person. The Anahita framework also provides the necessary APIs for the developers who wish to implement custom system notifications for their Anahita social apps.

Extend Anahita Using Custom Social Applications - Anahita Social Engine â„¢ is a platform and container for installing and hosting Anahita social applications. Anahita extensions and social apps are available as installable file packages. Inspired by the Google OpenSocial standards, an Anahita Social App can also display "Gadgets" on a person's profile or even other actor node profiles (groups, events, etc.). Clicking on the Gadget's title will redirect the viewer to the "Canvas View" (wide view) of the application.