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Open Source "Social-Network-In-A-Box"?

By Mo Sohn - Mar. 17, 2008

Looking to deploy an internal social network (think Ning) that provides the basic functionality - friends, wall posts, profile, photo sharing & groups. We'll be looking to add other features like bookmarking, jobs, events etc. over time. Nothing revolutionary. Was looking for a package that can be installed out-of-the box and get us up and running in a couple of days. I know Drupal provides a lot of this functionality but is still a little cumbersome to setup and mainatin. I'm hoping I can find something as simple as Ning when it comes to configuration, customization and admininstration. Once we're up and running we'll be looking to employ developers to start customizing this but for now we're looking for something that can be used out-of-the box and provides some basic skins, branding (logo) and user-privileges to help us get going.

Any ideas?


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  1. By an anonymous user on Mar. 17, 2008

    Try lovdbyless (www.lovdbyless.com). It was recently released and has most everything you listed. Its built using Ruby on Rails and is very simple to setup.


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  2. By an anonymous user on Mar. 17, 2008

    Look at pligg - it's a digg clone - http://www.pligg.com


    It's open source.


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  3. By Owen Walker on Mar. 17, 2008

    You should definitely look at Drupal. It has all the modules you have mentioned, and a lot more. Very easy to install and customize. Some basic php knowledge would definitely be helpful.


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  4. By Lawrence Salmingo on Apr. 07, 2008

    You can check out Dolphin, It's open source, but I think there is a commercial part of it.


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  5. By an anonymous user on Oct. 21, 2008

    I have looked at almost every one of these systems... and while they all have much to offer (thanks to the hard working developers!) they all are lacking in one way or another.

    Setup is always a pain for the average person...

    Even installing xampp so you can make setting up an apachee server to handle most of these is beyond the scope of many...


    I propose a solution... and need help and cooperation to pull it off...


    I am developing what will be a free system (nothing new here) that will include the best of each, tight security (most are vulnerable to sql injection) and a one download package configuration that will automatically install the latest php, jvm, ruby, rails, or whatever else you may need, configure it on the fly, and set up the system with NO logos from me, No branding to annoy you, and modules that adjust configuration and download its dependancies on the fly.

    I am a single RETIRED programmer with nothing better to do, but cannot do it alone in a timely fashion.

    If you are interested in contributing or submitting ideas my email address is

    phlames100proof@yahoo.com

    my web link is:

    http://torchofglass.com

    there will be a blog there and a lot more but all the remnants of my testing. You can post there also.

    For those interested in using it as it developes, feel free to let me know. Also features you would like can also be added...


    I am not advertising, I am only making aware the project development so I may get feedback to make it YOUR system...


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  6. By Daylon Jackson on Oct. 21, 2008

    Try Socialsite - https://socialsite.dev.java.net/ - the open source networking server from sun. Here's some more info from the site:


    Welcome to Project SocialSite, an open source ( CDDL/GPL2) project building Widgets and Web Services that make it easy for you to add social networking features to your existing web sites, including the ability to run OpenSocial Gadgets and have them backed by the same social graph.


    Here are some of the key features we're developing:


    * A complete end-to-end user interface for Social Networking in the form of JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any site (Java, Ruby, PHP-based and more).


    * A flexible Social Graph repository that can work in a wide variety of social networking scenarios. With configurable profile properties and relationship types.


    * Comprehensive JavaScript and REST API access to the Social Graph: OpenSocial plus conforming extensions.


    * Scalability via support for running in distributed configuration, table partitioning technologies, master and slave databases and distributed caching.


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  7. By Daylon Jackson on Oct. 21, 2008

    And there's always kickapps (www.kickapps.com)


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  8. By Kanchana Wickremasinghe on Oct. 29, 2008

    Try elgg.com they have a great product. It is open source therefore you can extend new components as you need them.


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