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25Oct09

SocialEngine announces free upgrade for 3.x clients

Great news from the folks at SocialEngine, who just announced that they will provide a free upgrade to the upcoming 4.0 release to all clients with current 3.x licenses!
The beta demo should be launched within 4-6 weeks. Looks like a pretty substantial overhaul to the base code.
Here is a partial tentative feature list for [...]

6May09

Leverage free apps, APIs, and web services.

I noticed the other day that Flixster is now using Meebo for their Instant Messaging feature.
With all of the free apps, APIs, and web services out there, there’s no shame in relying on other services to build out your service.
In fact, for a start-up social network, it would be crazy not to. It’s a great, [...]

16Apr09

Ning hits 1 million social networks

The Social reports that Ning’s one millionth site was recently created (about a fifth are currently active).

15Feb09

PayPal & Facebook join OpenID

PayPal and Facebook have joined the OpenID Foundation, and will now work with the rest of the community. This is great news for new developers and social networking entrepreneurs, as Facebook brings their membership heft and User Interface chops, while PayPal brings their security experience and the potential of a payment platform tied into the [...]

4Feb09

How to build a stong community…

Ben Huh from I Can Has Cheeseburger gives 15 tips on how to build a stong community…
My favourite:
5. Stop Engineering and Start Thinking About the Market
People who work in the technology industry tend to over engineer things. Don’t complicate your problems, simplify them. If you need to add a commenting system to your site don’t [...]

5Oct08

Open Source Social Networking Platforms Based on Ruby on Rails

At least two open source social networking platforms based on Ruby on Rails are out there (if you know of others, please post a comment).
Insoshi is by Michael Hartl, author of RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails. LovdbyLess [...]

5Sep08

Movable Type Pro and 4.2: Blogging Gets Social

I noted WordPress’s move into the social network platform arena earlier.
Movable Type Pro and 4.2 is headed in the same direction with the addition of social networking features like profiles, ratings, user registration, forums, following, and more. Plugins are following, including a News Feed clone.
As ReadWriteWeb correctly notes, these additions make the need for data [...]

26Aug08

Ning and the cost of free social networking platforms

I’m a big fan of Ning: it’s a quick and easy social networking platform to get a social network up and running, especially for non-profits. Their features are often stronger than similar social network software.
But I get nervous at the idea of my site relying on a single company. In a perfect world, it means [...]

14Aug08

Wordpress for Social Networking?

If I was a developer of social networking software, I’d be a little nervous right now.
BuddyPress is essentially a set of WordPress MU-specific plugins that switch Wordpress MU (Multi-user) from a blogging platform to a social platform, with features like:

Extended Profiles
Personal Blog
Private Messaging
Friends
Groups
The Wire
Status Updates
Albums

It’s pre-Beta right now, but given how easy and powerful Wordpress [...]

4Aug08

Elgg Pegged as Best Social Networking Software

Elgg as been named the best open source social networking platform in InfoWorld’s 2008 Best Of Open Source Awards.
Elgg took the opportunity to announce that version 1.0 is set to launch on August 18th.

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