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Previously, Abhijeet has highlighted three awesome sites where you can create your own social network easily . However, if you are one of those who wants more control of the site, including the branding, the domain name, the features, the design, the community rule, or even the database, the best way is to install and run a social networking software on your server. While there are plenty of scripts (both free and paid) that you can use to run your own social network, there are only a few that are stable, good and easy to use. Elgg has just won the best open source social networking platform for the year 2008, so there is no doubt about the usability of this software. Overall, Elgg is a powerful software that offers blog, networking, community, collection of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features.
The 5 Best Open-Source Social Networking Software
I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though. Quick Start If you don’t really want to do the coding but want to get a site up and running and soon as possible, you may want to have a look at Lovd by Less by the guys over at Less Everything . Lovd by Less contains user signups, galleries, blogs, comments and various other things that you might want, so it’s a great starting block for your site. RESTful Authentication is pretty much the defacto standard for user authentication in rails.
Building a Social Network Site in Rails
Features - SocialEngine Community Software
What people are saying More Thanks for making such a great product. SocialEngine has come to mean a lot more to me than social networking software. SocialEngine is an opportunity.
How to Create the next Social Network
Have you ever thought that you had a great idea for the next social network? Have you been stumped on where to even begin on creating a new social network? This site was created to help you get your feet wet on starting your own social networking site.insoshi/insoshi - GitHub
Insoshi is a social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. You can use Insoshi to make custom social networks; see the Insoshi demo site for an example. For support, join the Insoshi Google group . Insoshi was originally developed by Michael Hartl and Long Nguyen as part of the Y Combinator program, and is presently maintained by Evan Dorn and Logical Reality Design .
Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi | TechCrunch
Mark Hendrickson is the CEO and co-founder of the consumer internet company Worldly Developments. Formerly, he was a writer and web designer for TechCrunch. → Learn More Insoshi wants to be WordPress for social networks, except built on top of Ruby on Rails instead of PHP. We covered them in March when they presented at the Spring Y Combinator demo day. Now they’ve officially released their software for public download so anyone can install it on-premise to run their own social networks.
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The XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.5.5 RC. This release is focused on fixing open bugs and on updating our libra