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Open Source Social Platforms

1、Open Source Social Platforms: 10 of the Best

http://www.ajaxflakes.com/open-source/open-source-social-platforms-available-today-10-of-the-greatest/

http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/

As social sites grow in popularity, so does the desire for smaller niche-based networks that cater to smaller groups of people. Just look at the rise of social networks for chess players and wine.

What’s more, with the latest open source software, smaller sites can be built in a matter of days or weeks. Here are 10 open source software platforms on which to carve out your niche.

If there’s one site people love to emulate with their own niche versions, it’s Digg. Fortunately, there are good platforms to do just that.

Pligg

It seems that every hour, a new Pligg-based site is born. Pligg is a PHP/MySQL system that allows visitors to submit websites and blogs for voting or ranking. While very similar to Digg, it does offer some additional features, such as trackback support, automatic title discovery, and RSS import functionality. It also has a small community that is actively working on new mods and templates. Some of the more interesting Pligg-based sites are PlugIM, Sk*rt, Sphinn and Simply Fired.

NewsCloud

NewsCloud is another content management system that has a story ranking feature. They have also developed a Facebook app for their service, which is open source as well and available for download. The default layout is slightly more newsy than Digg-like.

Drupal with Vote up/down module

Most know Drupal as one of the more popular open source content management systems available. Thanks to the user community, several modules have been developed that allow voting of submitted stories. Recruiting.com uses this setup.

Dolphin

Dolphin, from Boonex, is a popular free community-building application that is being used for a number of dating sites. Many modifications have been developed, however many of them are only available for a fee. There is also a cost associated with removing the company’s links from your site.

PHPizabi

PHPizabi is another social networking script that charges a fee to remove their branding. They are rapidly approaching 100,000 downloads of their software, and have a few impressive-looking demo sites listed on their website.

Elgg

Elgg was developed with the educational industry in mind, but can be customized for any use. Many universities throughout the world have adapted the social software to fit their needs.

Mugshot

Developed by Red Hat, Mugshot allows you to post what you are reading and listening too, and share it with you friends. Mugshot is a little different, as both the client and server code are open source and available for download.

AroundMe

AroundMe is an open source social networking app that supports OpenID. They are based in Sweden. We haven’t seen many sites running on the platform.

GetBoo

GetBoo allows you to save you favorite sites and share them with your friends. It also supports public and private group creation.

Scuttle

While Scuttle has not been updated in over a year, the code is still available on SourceForge. Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based social bookmark system.

2、Cloning Web 2.0: A Look at Copycat Applications

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cloning_web_20.php

I know I recently railed against copycat sites — I assure you that the irony of this post isn’t lost on me. But as they say, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” As I said in my post 3 weeks ago, “if you do feel the need to borrow an idea, you should definitely make changes and try to innovate and push the concept in new directions.” That’s what Kevin Rose and his team did with Pownce, which seems likely inspired by Twitter. Pownce has pushed the idea in new and exciting directions, however, and added to the concept in positive ways for users (read our review). Some copycat sites, on the other hand, are more shameless in their theft.

The services below have not only spawned copycats, but software projects designed to make copying them easier, which may be proof that there is really something to their idea.

Twitter » Folkster

Twitter, the micro-blogging app from Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey, has been one of the most buzz-worthy web apps of the past year. After a demo at SXSW in March, Twitter exploded in popularity to become a top 1000 site (according to Alexa). So it’s no wonder people want to copy it. Folkstr is a soon-to-launch micro-blogging platform from development house Combtail. Folkstr mimics Twitter in appearance, though it seems to lack SMS features.

Digg » Pligg

We recently pegged Digg as a major acquisition target. Digg is the web’s top social news web site, and has spawned an incredible number of niche copycat sites. Many of them run or were initially launched using the open source Digg-clone Pligg. Pligg is a faithful reproduction of Digg (though it hasn’t caught up in terms of threaded comments), and even adds some features, such as tagging and the ability to automatically share links on other popular social news and bookmarking sites.

del.icio.us » Scuttle

Speaking of bookmarking… many have tried but no one has yet succeeded in dethroning the king social bookmarking websites: Yahoo!’s del.icio.us. If you think you’re up to it, the open source Scuttle is a good way to start. Unfortunately, Scuttle’s main web site is down right now, and a new version hasn’t been released in over a year.

YouTube » AlstraSoft Video Share

YouTube was one of the first big success stories of web 2.0, cashing in for over $1.65 billion last fall when it was acquired by Google. AlstraSoft’s Video Share Enterprise is a PHP/MySQL script that clones YouTube. Video Share duplicates most of YouTube’s features pretty well, and powers a number of small-to-medium sized sites, such as the paintball video sharing web site Xhaled. Also check out another YouTube clone script vShare. It seems unlikely that either of these scripts could scale out of the box to support anywhere near the traffic of YouTube, though.

Yahoo! Answers » Askeet

Yahoo! Answers has been one of Yahoo!’s greatest success stories. It was not the first question and answer site, but has grown into the largest, and is one of Yahoo!’s largest social networking sites. The team behind the Symfony PHP framework decided to clone Yahoo! Answers as a demo application to show off their framework. They came up with askeet!, a no frills Answers clone that uses Digg-style voting to determine the most interesting questions and thumbs up/down voting to determine the best answers. Not only is askeet!’s source code available under the MIT license, the developers also put out a 24-part tutorial series detailing exactly how it was built.

MySpace » PHPFox

Facebook might get all the hype, but MySpace is still by far the largest social network. As such, it is also the most often copied. One of the most popular and well-developed MySpace clone scripts out there is phpFoX. phpFoX is behind some fairly large niche MySpace clones, like the punk-rock centric Punx. The script supports all the features MySpacers love, such as groups, polls, forums, blogs, messaging, and profiles replete with ugly backgrounds and annoying auto-playing music.

Netvibes, Pageflakes » AlstraSoft StartPage

Just a few days ago Richard MacManus wrote about how AJAX start pages like PageFlakes and Netvibes are aiming to take on social networks. The barrier for entry in getting into this hot area has never been lower than now thanks to Alstrasoft’s AJAX DeskTop StartPage Enterprise, a PHP and MySQL based AJAX start page script that mimics the sites I just mentioned. I was actually pleasantly surprised by this product. The demo at MeVou.com is impressive, and offers a number of built in widgets and the ability to add custom RSS feeds from any source.

Wikipedia » MediaWiki

Unlike any other of the products in this round up, MediaWiki isn’t really a copycat. It’s the actual open source software that powers Wikipedia. MediaWikia can, of course, be used for other applications than simply creating a clone of Wikipedia — and it often is. As one of the most powerful and well-developed wiki applications on the market, MediaWiki is deployed the web over by people wishing to create wikis for a number of reasons.

Conclusion

While I’m still not too keen on straight clones of other services, what the above scripts and applications prove is that the cost of entry for web 2.0 sites is extremely low. Development of a site like YouTube might have cost in the tens of thousands a couple of years ago, but now a clone script can be had for $10. Many of these clone applications are free or open source. Granted these scripts might not scale very well, and they might not be as securely coded as something you have custom made, but the point is that, as Guy Kawasaki says, “things are a whole lot cheaper and easier these days.”

3、杂项

• open source youtube
  http://plumi.org
  http://showinabox.tv/
  http://filmforge.koumbit.net/
• DZOIC Handshakes Professional- social networking portal

http://www.dzoic.com/

• unalog -opensource del.icio.us

http://unalog.com/

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3645

• bevey-Open Source social networking system (akin to MySpace)

http://www.bevey.com/main/

• maestro-Socialize your music

http://www.getmaestro.com/

• Mugshot-个人网络服务聚合社区sns

http://mugshot.org/

• 其他

http://feedback.oxfamnovib.net/

http://chickspeak.com/

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