if you are planning to create your own social networking website, instead of working from scratch, check out Elgg. Elgg is an open source social networking platform.
from their website:
“Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.”
Elgg can be extended through plugins, plugins provide ways of adding functionality to Elgg like facebook applications.
Elgg is the best, we used it as the foundation for our website, http://www.SocialTrak.com
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Interesting stuff. Seeing as that there are now so many social networks catering to such a wide range of niches, my biggest problem is finding ones relevant to me and related to my specific interests or product niches. Google seems to be inefficient and returns alot of irrelevant results. A cool resource that I use is this search engine designed specifically to find social networking sites.
Comment by Social Networks — December 28, 2008 @ 2:35 am
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