Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Social Networks in a Box

I've been playing with a few social networking solutions as I work on the REI gallery and a yet to be determined second social network site. So far I have used ellg which is the basis for REI Gallery and seems to be very full featured, but was a bit ugly when it came to making templates.

The other solutions I've tried are Buddypress and Pligg. I haven't really delved into the internals of these systems but I do like some of the implementations from the Buddypress gallery. I also like the concept of CSS based themes since I am very into content seperate from structure. Many were the days studying CSS Zen Garden.

There are of course numerous other open source social networks but I think taking on 3 at a time will be my limit. Until then I will hack away at these three.

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