Insoshi is by Michael Hartl, author of RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails. LovdbyLess is by less everything, and has a great story behind it:
Along with having our own products, we also develop websites for other companies. Last year we had more requests for a “social network that also does _________” than for anything else. Most of these projects were crippled with a budget so small that they would never be able to afford a well programmed site that meets their goals. So we said we should just build an open source social network platform and give it away.
Insoshi Features
- Activity feeds
- Profiles with photos and comment walls
- Connections/friending
- Discussion forums
- Blogs with comments
- Messaging, including read/replied/trashed
- Search for profiles, forums, and messages
- Admin panel with site preferences
LovdbyLess Features
- Follow a user, mutual following is friending.
- User-to-User Messaging
- Profile Comments
- User Blogs with Comments
- Photo Gallery with Captions
- Site Search for Friends
- Profile Bio and Information
- User Dashboard (Recent Activity of Friends)
- Emailed Activity
- Flickr Integration
- YouTube Integration
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