Looking to deploy an internal social network (think Ning) that provides the basic functionality - friends, wall posts, profile, photo sharing & groups. We'll be looking to add other features like bookmarking, jobs, events etc. over time. Nothing revolutionary. Was looking for a package that can be installed out-of-the box and get us up and running in a couple of days. I know Drupal provides a lot of this functionality but is still a little cumbersome to setup and mainatin. I'm hoping I can find something as simple as Ning when it comes to configuration, customization and admininstration. Once we're up and running we'll be looking to employ developers to start customizing this but for now we're looking for something that can be used out-of-the box and provides some basic skins, branding (logo) and user-privileges to help us get going.
Any ideas?
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Add AnswerBy an anonymous user on Mar. 17, 2008
Try lovdbyless (www.lovdbyless.com). It was recently released and has most everything you listed. Its built using Ruby on Rails and is very simple to setup.
By an anonymous user on Mar. 17, 2008
Look at pligg - it's a digg clone - http://www.pligg.com
It's open source.
You should definitely look at Drupal. It has all the modules you have mentioned, and a lot more. Very easy to install and customize. Some basic php knowledge would definitely be helpful.
You can check out Dolphin, It's open source, but I think there is a commercial part of it.
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