open source social networking with elgg

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.

all in one box social networking — spokeo

Spokeo is a social networking aggregator for those of you who have dozen’s of social networking accounts, Spokeo works like facebook’s news feed utility but it just don’t limit it to facebook, Spokeo searches your friend’s feeds/blogs/photos across 40 social networks, so you don’t have to visit all of your social networks. Skopeo helps you keep  you connected with your friends across the web.

From Spokeo Site: Spokeo is a friend finder/tracker that automatically brings you friends’ updates across the Web.  Check out people’s accolades.