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Re: Open Source Social Platforms: 10 of the Best

Seo Blog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:36:35 -0000

Open source social platform are being popular now a days. As many of us like free products.

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Christopher Landman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:34 -0000

Drupal is the ultimate open source platform that a developer/designer can use to build and evolve a site into anything that they require.

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sugitha — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:37:04 -0000

http://isocial.in is one of good open social networking script.

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Bob Saint Clar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:53:45 -0000

Interesting : but who is the best

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Xonic — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:02:45 -0000

nice review, thanks for that list :-)

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disqus_NxmPEVx8hf — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:29:03 -0000

Looks interesting...
I'll take a look later... ;)

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John — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:59:38 -0000

Open source, or free, this is a good list! Thanks for taking the time to find these scripts and explain them...

Let's not nitpick whether they are truly open source or not. Give the guy some thanks!

Thanks!!

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Indian Smartphones Blog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:31:57 -0000

hey there.. nice review. and btw, i've used drupal, with some changes ofcourse.. and i've tried bevey too.. its also cool. you should try it sometime.
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Tim — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:46:22 -0000

Don't trust Dolphin. All day want is your money. They don't even show a contact number and that is scary. Sorry but no thanks!

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club penguin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:20:51 -0000

There are some more serious downsides to this script. Including but not limited to Script Callbacks to the developer site, Some security issues that have not been resolved, No direct Support. The developer site is not a very user friendly browsable site. You have to search for updates, download older versions, AND have to go to a off-site support forum. The developer site does not have its own support forum.

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Dr Sanu P Moideen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:12:12 -0000

I prefer elgg
http://www.elgg.org

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social php — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:42:48 -0000

i search in google about social networking open source.. i found your review.. that is very useful. thanks

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RootLock — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:41:37 -0000

Greetings,

For me Dolphin is the best, most complete platform on the list. I looked a long time for something open source (got no money) and Dolphin is really the only one that suited my needs.

Negatives: difficult to set up, add-ons come with a price, ad removal license for a fee

As to the difficulty of set up, www.Joombyte.com installs Dolphin for free with hosting account. The install worked like a dream, and the little support that I've needed has been quick and complete. In addition, Joombyte.com is set up for social sites and has appropriate security (I drilled them on this!)

You can see my site at www.MyOMspot.com.

Thanks,
Rootlock

As to the Open Source controversy, I'm new to this world so I'm not really one to add to the debate.

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Denis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:58:24 -0000

Forgat to mention this link for a tutorial to build a flick like site with Drupal.

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Denis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:51:19 -0000

Have a look at list of open source solution to implement a flickr like site, may help.

To me the best solution to do a flick like site with an open source solution is Drupal. You must look at the various extensions (called module) that you need, but you could have tagging, API, nice display, etc...

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gestroud — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:58 -0000

The only problem with phpIzabi is that most of the more useful plugins/modules aren't free. Beyond that, it's a great piece of software.

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Alejandro — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:12:27 -0000

Dolphin and PHPIzabi are not open source. I don't see how something can be called Open Source if its license isn't approved by OSI, the FSF, Debian, or ANY FLOSS advocacy group. Just being able to see the source doesn't mean it's "open source".

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Bobblehead — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:52:42 -0000

I want to add a social platforms for custom bobblehead, anyone can help?

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shafi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:18:04 -0000

I am currently using a pligg based site which is really good. But this is more good that I have got such a nice lists you have given.

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Lovd — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:22:13 -0000

We just launched in mid-March of 2008, but another option is LovdbyLess. It's an open source social networking platform from Less Everything that's free to download and customize. It's built with Ruby on Rails and since inception has had a terrific response from the community. Check it out and hopefully it's a good fit. We'd love to hear back with suggestions or fixes in the Google Group, too.

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Lovd — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:38:05 -0000

Lovd by Less just launched today. It's an open source social network platform built in ruby on rails. Create your own community for free and customize. It takes a little understanding of ROR, but installation instructions at the download page give a nice step-by-step for those not familiar with it.

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www.lake-shore.co.uk — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:46:50 -0000

We're using Drupal w/a modified version

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Todd Lockhart — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:29:59 -0000

What about Appleseed?

Admittedly still in beta stage, but with lots of promise...
http://appleseed.sourceforg...

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Efstratios — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:43:20 -0000

Cool...

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Webster Jorgensen — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:46:40 -0000

Drupal has a wiki module and a wiki installation profile.