Nowadays Social Networking has popping out as a new face of modern sociology and a key technique for tight connection with friends, no matters wherever they are situated in the world.
The popular social networking site like Twitter, Facebook, Orkut , MySpace and LinkedIn are keeping internet users busy in various activities on their own site that incorporates – profile, blogs, notifications, groups, files sharing (photo and video), messaging, forum discussion, search option, comments, social bookmarking and others exciting feature of social networking.
Every internet user knows the power of social networking websites. Some of the enterpuner are using to built end-to-end business and others people are exercising according to their way of self-interest.
For more control on web industry we need good design, brand name, the community rule, database for that you can opt a simple way – install and run a social networking software on your server. You can find more varieties in scripts that tends to be more useful to move individual social network, there are only a few that are stable, good and easy to use.
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Here we listed “12 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software To make Your Social Network Stronger Than Ever“.
1. Sourceforge
2. Mugshot
3. Elgg
4. Xoops with Yogurt extension
5. BuddyPress
6. Mahara
7. Kickapps
8. Insoshi
9. Lovd by Less
10. Anahita Social Engine
11. Mixxt
12. AROUNDMe
If you are using any other Social Networking Software to built a site than please share with us in comments.
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Mugshot has always been my favorite.
Isn’t mugshot dead?
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You should take a tour a this social media framework too : http://www.yacs.fr Yacs is a complete webmastering tool for content management and community management.
Thanks for your suggestion for our readers….!!!
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And what about JoSocial ? http://www.jomsocial.com/
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On Insoshi is image of Github.
insoshi is using GitHub to share code with you….!!!
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I only used BuddyPress ago.
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Great finds. I will be passing this over to my developer friends and will be trying out the services soon.
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I want to pimp storytlr, a great PHP-based, open source life-streaming platform developed by some great folks, Alard Weisscher and Laurent Eschenauer! See http://code.google.com/p/storytlr/ for more information.
“Storytlr is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform. You can use it for a single user or it can act as a host for many people all from the same installation.”
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http://chameleon.startsocialnetwork.com what about this one? open source too and looks amazing.
It does not appear to be Open Source but rather a commercial package.
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My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!
Have you got more news like that ?
hmm.. i like this one
thanks, great article. it really helped me!
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Looking to add a social network to compliment my site. What are your thoughts on SocialEngine, phpFox, socialGO etc?
Hi, anyone could give me a recommendation?? how about mixxt, anyone using it??
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Hello. I really enjoyed reading this article and hope you will soon come up with more posts like this. Thank you very much for sharing it with us!
Never heard of some of these thanks for the good reference material.