http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/07/25-best-social-networking-platforms-to-start-your-own-service.html
Open Source Platforms to Create Your Own Social Networking Website
http://doublemesh.com/tools/open-source-for-social-networking-website/
BuddyPress is an open source
social networking software package owned by Automattic. ”Social
networking, in a box. Everything you need to start your own self-hosted
and WordPress-powered social network”.
Dolphin
is a CMS that lets you create social networks, dating sites and web
communities. It comes loaded with video chat, recorder, video player,
forums, groups, events, video messaging, emails,
file sharing as well as desktop and mobile apps.
This powerful open source
social networking engine is one of the most popular development
platforms. Its built to run on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP)
platform. It offers blogging, microblogging, file sharing, networking,
groups, and numerous other features
Jcow
is a flexible social networking CMS coded in PHP. Jcow makes it
easy&interesting to create Social Networks and online communities.
Jcow
is a flexible social networking CMS coded in PHP. Jcow makes it
easy&interesting to create Social Networks and online communities.
PeoplePods claims to be
“a developer friendly social software toolkit”. The CMS is flexible and is well-backed by active development.
Pligg is an open source
CMS (Content Management System) that you can download and use for free.
Pligg CMS provides social publishing software that encourages visitors
to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect
with other users.
Oxwall is
unbelievably flexible and easy to use PHP/MySQL community software
platform. Oxwall is used for a wide range of projects starting from
family sites and custom social networks to collaboration tools and
enterprise community solutions.
Inspired
by the latest Web technologies and built on top of the Web parts
infrastructure, MonoX allows you to design and develop next generation
ASP.NET Web applications and social networks.
Etano lets you create a social network, dating
website
and other collaborative sites. It doesn’t really offer many unique
features, but it can surely suffice for a small social networking
project.
Hotaru CMS is an open source, PHP platform for building your own websites. With flexible plugins and
themes, you can make any site you like. The most common use for Hotaru is social bookmarking.
LiveStreet CMS lets you create social networks and team blogs. It offers many extensions and multilingual translations.
Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network
http://dzineblog.com/2010/03/top-10-open-source-platforms-that-allow-you-to-build-your-own-social-network.html
