Social Networking Sites

Social Networking solutions are evolving everyday.

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.

Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.

While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary encapsulated services has gained popular uptake recently.

Here you will find some of the leading enterprises.

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Features

Main Section

Home
- Shoutbox
- Recent Blogs List
- Random Polls
- Recent Pics
- Recent Logins
- News & Annoucements
- New Forum Topics
- Whos Online
- Web Search
Gallery
- View all image posted on the site
- View images by categories
- Special browse settings to make viewing easier
- Featured Images
- Option to create/edit
- Admin access to feature/delete images
Browse
- View all members
- Advanced Search Engine to find members
- Featured Members
- Comment on Images
- Admin access to feature members
Blogs
- View all blogs
- Read and Comment on blogs
- Special browse settings to make viewing easier
- Option to create/edit
- Admin access to delete polls
Forum
- Post Topics
- Post replies to other topics
- Admin access to edit forums in the admin panel
- Admin access to delete any topics/replies
Rate
- Rate Pics From 1-10
- View Top Rate Pics
- View Most Viewed Pics
Battle
- Image Battle to pic which image will win
- Option to view battle leaders
Poll
- View all polls
- Answer polls added by the members
- Option to create/edit
- Admin access to delete polls
Groups
- Groups split up into categories
- Categories editable from the admin panel
- Features Groups
- View/Create/Edit Personal Groups
- Advanced Search Engine
- Groups Contain: Shoutbox
- Groups Contain: Gallery
- Groups Contain: Guestbook
- Groups Contain: Forum
- Admin access to feature/delete a group
Classifieds
- View all listings
- View/Create/Edit Personal Listings
- Reply/Forward listings
- Advanced Search Engine
- Categories editable from the admin panel
- Admin access to delete a listing
Fun
- View all fun items
- Place to add funny videos and flash games
- Admin access to delete a game/video
Quiz
- View all fun quizzes
- Take another members quiz with up to 10 questions to answer
- Option to create/edit
- Admin access to delete a quiz
Music
- View all music videos
- Option for members to add videos to their profile
- Features Songs
- New Releases
- Top Requested Songs
- Advanced Search Engine
- Admin access to delete/feature a music video
Events
- View all events
- Option for members to add events
- Featured Events
- Advanced search for location and zip code
- Birthday Calendar

Members Area

Main
- Message Center. Listing new messages, friends requests and comments added.
- Account Info: Type, Points, Member Since and Space Used
- Theme Manager ( Option for members to change site theme )
- Profile Picture ( Option to change )
- Bulletin Board recent posts
- My Friends List
- My Favorites
Account Settings
- Email Info/Change
- Option to change password
- Option to edit Gender, Location, Date of Birth
- Option to recieve email notifications (
Profile Settings
- Option to edit: Headline, Occupation, Dating Status, Orientation, Smoke, Drink, Religon, Turn Ons, Turn Offs, Hobbies, Movies, Music, Books and About Yourself.
Profile Picture
- Option for the member to change their profile image.
Design My Profile
- Option to upload background image.
- Options to fully edit the members profile with the easy to use color picker. From which the member can changes the whole color layout of their profile to fit the way they want it to be.
Messages/Mail
- Inbox
- Sentbox
- Compose New Message
- Crush Inbox
- Crush Sentbox
- Comments Inbox
Submit Items
- Upload Pictures
- Write Blogs
- Create Polls
- Create Quiz
My Items
- Edit Pictures
- Edit Blogs
- Edit Polls
- Edit Quizzes
- Edit Comments
My Friends
- Full Friends List
- Option to delete friends
- New Friend Requests
- Pending Requests
My Favorites
- Full Favorites List
- Option to delete favorites
Bulletin
- View Bulletin Board
- View My Bulletins
- Post New Bulletin
- User option to edit/delete posts
- Member option to reply/forward post
- Admin option to delete
Invite
- Option to send out 1-5 invite emails
- Extra Message Option
- Invite Leaders List

Members Personal Profiles

With the new release of phpFoX version 1.0.7+ we have brought in the short url mod. So profiles can now be setup to be setup like so: http://www.yoursite.com/username

Profile Sections
- Profile
- Gallery
- Blogs
- Guestbook
- Friends
- Favorites
Profile Info
- Display Username
- Display Profile Picture
- Display Online/Offline Status
- Display Users Info: Job, Smoke, Drink, Religion, Orientation, Dating Status, Member Since, Points, Gender, Location, Age, Views, Star Sign and Last Login.
Blocks On Profile
- My Gallery
- My Friends
- About Me
- Turn Ons
- Turn Offs
- Music
- Books
- Movies
- Hobbies
- My Blogs
- Guestbooks
- Recent Visitors
Contact Panel
- Send Private Message
- Send Crush
- Instant Messenger
- Add to friends
- Add to favorites
- Rate Me
- Block User
Personal Profile Design

spree

spree is an expert search engine where users ask questions to find other participating users, who are knowledgeable in that area and willing to help.

iSocial

iSocial is a free social networking CMS software that allows you to create your own Friendster and Orkut like sites. Use bookmarks, dating and create groups with just one mouse click.

Mahara

Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

Yogurt

This is a Social Network module for xoops CMS. You have seen Facebook, Orkut, Myspace , try Yogurt for Xoops!

VMukti

VMukti is a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine. Allows access through personalized, mashable web-interface. Core features:- Video conferencing, Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard, Presentation & More.

The PeopleAggregator

The PeopleAggregator is a next-generation social networking system that goes beyond the idea of social networks as mating games, and attempts to use open standards, network inter-connectivity and massive flexibility.

Appleseed

Appleseed is (augmented) social networking software, ie Friendster, only distributed. Sites running Appleseed will interoperate, and form the 'Appleseed Social Network.' Development is focused on privacy and security, as well as ease of configuration.

Mugshot Project

The Mugshot site lets you track what your friends are doing online across a variety of popular web sites � music, photos, blog posts, and more.

GetBoo

Web 2.0 bookmarking system, both social (with tags) and private (with folders). Import and export your bookmarks from Firefox, IE, Mozilla, Netscape. Admin management section, translations, groups, bookmarklets, Firefox extension, RSS feeds, and more!

Akarru

Akarru is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites, like www.blogmemes.com. Users posts links and promote links to front page using voting system.

Scuttle

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online.

SemanticScuttle

SemanticScuttle is a social bookmarking tool (based on Scuttle) experimenting new features as hierarchical tags, collaborative descriptions or OpenID authentification.

AROUNDMe

Create collaborative social websites (like Ning, Myspace, Yahoo or Google groups). Each group can create a multiple web pages. They get a drop in guestbook, blog, forum and wiki. Each group is fully customizable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

Clonesumating

Clonesumating is the open source version of the code that runs CONSUMATING.COM. It features many state of the art social networking functions including user profiles, user tagging, matching and discovery based on quirky tag combinations, group activities such as weekly photo contests and blog questions, an event calendar, RSS feeds for everything, etc. It is written primarily in mod_perl.

BeWelcome Rox

Get to know the global village and other cultures, share your place. BW Rox is the platform driving www.bewelcome.org and other social networks, aiming to bring people together in real life. Organize your travel or stay abroad, travelblog, meetings, ...

ICEcore

ICEcore open team collaboration software uses social networking to unify team workspaces w/ real-time web conferencing. Collaboration for knowledge networking, program management, communities-of-practice, telework, ...

Memephage

Memephage is an automated web log (blog). It passively gathers and summarizes links from various places. Currently: IRC, social MUDs, e-mail, and web browsers. Uses the POE multitasking and networking framework for Perl.

InteractOLE

A platform for the delivery and support of online learning. It differs from many other elearning platforms in that its aim is to concentrate on the social/interactive aspects of teaching and learning rather than the delivery of content to students.

Elgg

Elgg is an open source social networking platform developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more.

CommunityNews

CommunityNews uses social bookmarking and bayesian techinques to provide periodic postings to blogs. Users can vote for or against RSS sources ti increase the chances that the source is used again. Spam filtering (bayesian) is provided by spam bayes.

OpenPNE

OpenPNE is a Social Networking Service Engine written in PHP. It has many features(friend control,friend invitation,diary,blog feeds,message box,etc).

MonkeyChow

Feed Aggregator Reader (branched from FeedOnFeeds) with Social Bookmarks (del.icio.us, Blogger, Newsvine, Technorati, mailto), Article Starring, Feed Tagging, OPML, Article Search, Reblogging and Refeeding, Aging, and Edit feed attributes.

NewsCloud

NewsCloud is an open source media platform for citizen journalism and the social news network hosted at NewsCloud.com.

Feed Me Links

Feed Me Links stores your bookmarks online so you can get to them anywhere. Import your favorites and share your links with friends. Add tags to organize your links. Discover new things.

WorldSpace

WorldSpace is a user-extensible shared virtual environment, aimed at being a next-generation social networking system.

Social Networking POC

A networking site on the lines of Orkut.Right now we plan to build it on Jboss seam and use a Java content management system like apache Jackrabbit as the backend. It would be more of a POC than an actual commercial app.

Zoints

Zoints is intimately aware that online communities are the most important aspect of the internet. Our free software solutions are designed to help solve the three major problems forum owners face: Member acquisition, Member retention and Profitability.

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