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 May/June 2008

Social Networking

Max Kiesler, "an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of Ideacodes.com, a Web consultancy in San Francisco," maintains a Most Excellent Compendium of Open Source social bookmarking, file sharing, search and social networking applications.

Open Source Social Networking Software includes:

  • Affelio: Affelio is open-source social networking software / architecture. It has following features: (1) distributed architecture (2) Internet-wide scalability, (3) Extensivity with opened Affelio API for developers, and (4) high customizability with skins/templates.

  • FlightFeather: Social Networking Platform "FlightFeather's goal is "social networking for everyone". This means that anyone should have a chance to run a popular social networking site -- on minimal hardware, and without wasting bandwidth.

  • Hiitch: The Social Networking Platform "Hiitch is a secure and advanced desktop social networking platform. It allows you to build a focused and private network of communities for your family, friends, company and etc. It gives you total control and freedom for your social networking needs."

  • iSocial: Social Networking CMS "Social Networking script written in PHP and MySQL. Designed for every kind of communities - can easily create their own social networking Website for free with no ads."

  • The Apple Orchard "The Apple Orchard is a multi-user, open source social networking Web application with the ability for users to upload photos and videos, write a blog, have comments, personalize their page layout and appearance and sort multimedia by tags."

  • Yogurt: Social Network "This is a Social Network module for Xoops CMS. You have seen Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, try Yogurt for Xoops!"

Links to these and other OS-SN-SS and links to the SourceForge code are available at onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com or http://tinyurl.com/5l24mz.

Examples of other Open Source Social Networking Software/Sites are most welcome, as are comments on the “Friends Blog Entry” (above) and/or at a Facebook global group devoted to OS-SN-SS that is accessible at http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com or http://tinyurl.com/3tyap4.

Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian, Iowa State University Library
 gerrymck@iastate.edu

Cataloging Tools

Some stuff on the cataloger's desktop are freely-accessible Web sites. So I decided to pull some of them out for my fellow Advanced Cataloging classmates at school. I figured some of you all may find them useful. Click here.
Justin Tyler, Wayne State University, Library and Information Science Program
 justinleetyler@yahoo.com

Google Gadget Spider
I found this Google Gadget while following a link. I have installed the spider on our children’s summer reading page so kids can watch him walk around. This was not developed as part of a program, so I’m not sure it qualifies as a resource, but I thought it was definitely a fun thing to add to our page.
Melissa Widner, Webmaster, Jasper County Public Library
 mwidner@jasperco.lib.in.us

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