Open Source Social Networking
Lockergnome subscriber Sean Norton asks:
Are you aware of any open source web social networking software out there that is similar to myspace and user friendly for all levels of computer skills. I’ve been working on getting the alumni association for my chapter of TKE fraternity online and interactive. I’d considered using a standard static website model with just some mailing list options for group mailings, mainly to save on snail mail postage for newsletters and avoid maintaining a list of e-mail addresses myself. I’d love to have a customizable bulletin board with individual personal profile options like Myspace offers. Many of us already use myspace, but that’s just the younger computer oriented guys, and I’d like something even the octagenarians of the group could successfuly master or at least futz their way through without barraging me with questions. I checked out a freeware app called Joomla but it wasn’t quite what I wanted.
What about Ning?
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24 Comments
Anonymous
January 1st, 1970
at 12:00am
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November 23rd, 2009
at 1:01pm
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March 16th, 2007
at 6:11pm
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March 17th, 2007
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Jarrod
March 14th, 2007
at 4:24pm
I watch CommandN, http://stage6.divx.com/commandN, and they were stating Ning was huge in Canada.
:)
Paolo Valdemarin
March 15th, 2007
at 11:32am
What about People Aggregator?
Demo here:
http://www.peepagg.net/
Download here:
http://update.peopleaggregator.org/
seether
April 5th, 2007
at 5:16am
The problem with Ning is that it is ad supported and if you want to use it without that (so you can add your own ads) you have to pay.
As for People Aggregator, you have to have PHP 5 on your server and in my case, there was an extension not installed so now I am waiting for the host to let me know if they can install it or not. It was the XSL extension, by the way.
Jan-Frederik Kobus
April 17th, 2007
at 2:13am
hi Sean
A bit late my reaction, but saw your post this morning.
There are some OSSN (did some research on that two years ago):
- aroundme = http://www.barnraiser.org
- elgg = http://www.elgg.org
- dolphin = http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/
- civicspace = drupal fork for social network
All in PHP and open source
cheers
Jan-Frederik
Michael Chisari
May 5th, 2007
at 10:59am
Appleseed – appleseed.sourceforge.net
tom
June 11th, 2007
at 7:14am
Barnraiser has a service like Ning for non for profits at http://www.barnraiser.net/
tom
June 14th, 2007
at 11:21pm
Barnraiser launched AROUNDMe version 1.0 yesterday. It is free (GPL licensed) software that provides a solution for anyone wishing to create a collaborative social space on the Web. http://www.barnraiser.org (click on the “AROUNDMe” logo) for details.
Brian
December 11th, 2007
at 2:49pm
I’ve been working on one I call Bevey. GPL and runs on LAMP systems.
QuickAds
February 19th, 2008
at 10:08pm
Yeah, is anyone know about an open source social networking ??
Please send me a mail
Michael Wilson
March 8th, 2008
at 10:23pm
It’s not an open source platform, per se, but the Small World Labs set of online community platforms is based on the LAMP open source software stack, but it’s a software as a service offering. Our delivery model is to combine our software with our expertise in helping companies and organizations to achieve vibrant communities. We’ve found that having interesting social networking software only part of the solution. A big part of the overall success component is how to make certain that the social network is configured with your target audience in mind, and that you are engaging in the right mix of community building activities. It’s critical to create an effective plan and to keep the best interests of your members in mind in doing so. We just hosted a panel at SXSW Online Communities That Work that featured a host of community building experts discussing this.
John Bon
March 18th, 2008
at 8:34pm
Just wanted to add that CivicSpace is not open source, they charge for it, so it shouldn’t be listed
Another possibility..
March 26th, 2008
at 9:57am
Just released in March of 2008, Lovd by Less is a free open source social networking platform built with ruby on rails. There isn’t a ton of support because it was built after client demand. The google group is alive and well for it though if you need some help. Hope you like it!
jim
April 29th, 2008
at 2:09pm
What about ELGG? It’s open source, and looks pretty good at first glance. Anyone using it?
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associate
August 22nd, 2008
at 10:21am
there dont seem to be any that encompass the level of a myspace or facebook without a decent amount of modifications. maybe I am not searching hard enough. if anyone finds any which they can honestly give an 8 or 9 out of 10 please help point me in the right direction.
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webguru
March 16th, 2009
at 7:59pm
elgg sucks! it has too many bugs. Not worth it… also I rather just develop my own social network by scratch :)
Xavier Deschamps
May 27th, 2009
at 6:08pm
At my knowledge the most popular open source social networking site is GROU.PS (http://grou.ps) – Alexa also says that. They are one of the top 6000 sites.
Joe K
June 17th, 2009
at 2:16pm
I have elgg running now, all works fine but picture uploads as something with GD library prevent pics from uploading.
They are going to be using imagemagic in about 2 weeks or so and then the software will be fine. its up running now on my website.