Grou.ps is another platform that you should probably look into if you’re interested in building anything like a Social Network.
It’s got a very large range of features that will pretty much satisfy anyone:
As you can see, Forums, Wikis, Blogs, Calendars, Video, Files, Photos, Links/Bookmarks, Maps, Chat, and more!
One of the nice things is that you could even sign up for a free hosted-account and you won’t be spammed by any random advertisements. In fact, you can also mask a domain so that it looks like your own service!
Pretty amazing considering it’s all free!
Support on this platform, though, is pretty limited, so I would probably proceed with a little caution; you need to know what you’re doing and have a good handle on how to install, update, edit, etc.
Otherwise, knock yourself out.
Daniel_Berman says
Now this does look interesting, especially as opposed to ning. If its open source, are they going to be releasing a white label product for deployment to one's own server?
human3rror says
yes, it's already available.
Daniel_Berman says
here's the download page….<a href=”http://grou.ps/groudotps/wiki/20476/….first” target=”_blank”>http://grou.ps/groudotps/wiki/20476/….first link listed
ZavRab says
but first you can register on service
Suprimio says
This whole grou.ps sucks all the way! 4 years in BETA and nothing changed – full of bugs, constant crashes, problems with spam in emails, adding pictures and videos, minimal help from the support – read the posts on the ’support’ forum and see for yourselves what problems constantly faced by users of this failed experiment: http://grou.ps/groudotps/talks/c0