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25 Best Social Networking Platforms to Start your own Service

25 Best Social Networking Platforms to Start your own Service
Social networking websites have been around since the mid-90’s, but in recent years, social networking has exploded across the web. The Web 2.0 initiative has made modern social networking sites increasingly popular and easier to use than the initial wave of sites that launched in the 90’s. It’s super important these days to have a presence on social media sites. Did you know that Facebook in 2009 had more than 300 million users, and roughly half of these logged in every day? I can also tell you that twitter attracted more than 22 million unique visitors every month and YouTube had more than 100 million users in the US alone. Advertisement A social networking service focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. Lets take a look at how easy it has become to create a new social networking service. 1. 2. Sorceforge is the world’s largest opensource software development web site. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Related:  WebStartUp

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Top 10 Open-Source Platforms to Build Your Own Social Network Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Looking for hosting?. We recommend MediaTemple for web hosting. Building a social network isn’t an easy task, let alone a successful one. BuddyPress BuddyPress is the social network platform version of WordPress. Sites Running on BuddyPress CUNY Academic Commons H-Mag Unstructure Pligg Pligg was created as a social networking CMS. Sites Running on Pligg MotoTagz Dezinews GluvSnap Elgg Elgg is a powerful social networking platform that is backed by a growing community of developers and interactive users. Sites Running on Elgg Hedge Hogs Funding TeachBox 1st Angel Art Mag KickApps KickApps gives enterprises, corporations, small/large brands the power to create an interactive social network based on a one of a kind platform that offers an active, dynamic, distributed and data-structured solution. Sites Running on KickApps H&R Block Community American Express Publishing Dell’s Community Lovd by Less Sites Running on Lovd by Less ImitateLife

Home Build a Social Intranet eXo Platform is an out-of-the-box social intranet solution. Rich collaboration features such as wikis, forums, calendars and documents are smartly integrated around activity streams, social networking and workspaces. It is carefully designed to instantly engage users. Learn More Build Social Websites eXo Platform has inherited strong capabilities for managing websites from its portal platform roots. But it is also a fantastic platform for content-centric applications. However, they can also be used in the front end if you need to engage your visitors! Learn More How to Build Your Online Platform You have a powerful message inside. You’re bursting at the seams to get it out. You have endless inspiration and ideas. There’s only one problem – it takes time to build your online platform . So many people have this dilemma. My suggestion? The #1 way to get a LOT more traffic and a LOT more results is to blog your heart out . Then people come to your site and love your blog post content. Let’s say you make a 7-15 page, beautifully designed and formatted eBook . Then you go to your calendar and make a note that once or twice a month, you send a high-value email to that email list so they are staying connected to you and interested in you. Next, you start working on creating a $97 product . Then, you create the outline for a really great 4-8 week teleseminar . Now you have a TON of free content from your blog and eBook (and other things you’ll naturally be a part of such as guest blogging, radio interviews, podcasting maybe), you have your rockin $97 product and teleseminar recordings.

Build Your Platform – Start The following is part ONE of a series called Build Your Platform. If you find it interesting, please consider subscribing for free to get the rest of the series. Part 2: AdelePart 3: Skrillex This post is long. You might want to bookmark it for later. The age of social media oversaturation is upon us. Pardon me while I channel my inner Susan Powter there. If you seek to make an impact in 2012 and beyond, the time has come to think seriously about your digital presence. Note: If you just want to tinker and enjoy social media and social networks, stop reading this post and go see what’s happening in the world of Klout, Instagram, and whatever else Mashable reports on. Build Your Platform: Goals The goal of building your platform is to create useful information, to select the best possible media to package that information, and then to choose a series of distribution technologies for delivering your ideas to others, to encourage interactions, and to drive towards certain target results. 1.)

Tracking the DIY phenomenon Part 1: Widgets, badges, and gadgets One of the hallmarks of a good Web 2.0 site is one that hands over non-essential control to users, letting them contribute content, participate socially, and even fundamentally shape the site itself. The premise is that users will do a surprising amount of the hard work necessary to make the site successful, right down to creating the very information the site offers to its other users and even inviting their friends and family members to use it. Web 2.0 newcomers MySpace and YouTube have shown how this can be done on a mass scale surprisingly quickly, and of course older generation successes like eBay and craigslist have been doing this for years. Particularly younger, Web-savvy users have been encrusting their blogs and MySpace profiles with things like badges and widgets for a while now, especially now that a significant number of Web sites have opened up their content to let users do this. Motivation, Benefits, and Business Models Considerations when designing widgets

How to Create a Facebook Subscribe Widget for Your Website Last month Facebook launched the Subscribe feature that lets users select to receive the public updates of people they’re not friends with, similar to following someone on Twitter. However, Facebook has not released an official Subscribe widget or badge that users can be install on a website to ask visitors to Subscribe to them. Here we’ll walk-through how to use Facebook’s existing profile badge creator and its ability to display the name of your latest Facebook Note to make a Subscribe widget. You can add this badge to any website to help you gain more subscribers and get more impressions and clicks on your updates. The Subscribe feature is a powerful way for individuals on Facebook to gain a massive audience for their content. By gaining more subscribers you can become a thought leader and drive traffic to any link of your choice. 4 Steps to Creating a Subscribe Badge 1. 2. 3. 4. You’ll now have a profile badge that displays a call to action to Subscribe to your updates.

Badgestack Is An Open-Source Tool For Gamifying Learning Microcredentials Whether you call them microcredentials, trophies, or badges, the idea of documenting progress and making trends visible is becoming increasingly popular across increasingly diverse digital platforms. While this approach fits naturally into literal games, “gamifying” a system that isn’t first a game is a new approach that dovetails nicely into elements of social media, where aggregating is effortless and curating is second nature. Enter BadgeStack. The Smithsonian Institute, the , and the U.S. Department of Education all use a model called BadgeStack, a set of gamification tools built by LearningTimes that enable badge-based learning. Now in version 2.0 (v2.0), these tools allow you to gamify a variety of formal and informal learning processes, offering stunning potential with the right kind of thinking. Think of this like twitter opening their API so that it can integrate with other platforms. Open Source & Internet-Wide Good thing then that BadgeStack is open source.

The 10 Most Useful Search Engines for Beginners, 2013 April, 2014 Most people don't want 290 search engines, especially people who are internet beginners. Most users want a single search engine that delivers three key features: Relevant results (results you are actually interested in) Uncluttered, easy to read interface Helpful options to broaden or tighten a search With this criteria, 10 Reader Favorite Search Engines come to mind. These 10 search sites should meet 99% of the searching needs of a regular everyday user. Below is a changing list of user favorites, compiled from reader email suggestions. Submit a Site: you are welcome to suggest a search engine for inclusion in this list. 1. At first, DuckDuckGo.com looks like Google. 2. The Ask/AJ/Ask Jeeves search engine is a longtime name in the World Wide Web. 3. Bing is Microsoft's attempt at unseating Google. 4. Yippy is a Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. 5. Webopedia is one of the most useful websites on the World Wide Web. 6. Yahoo! 7. 8. 9. Try Mahalo. 10.

Top 15 Most Popular Search Engines Here are the top 15 Best Search Engines based on popularity as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's U.S. Traffic Rank from Quantcast and Global Traffic Rank from both Alexa and SimilarWeb."*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | Google1 - eBizMBA Rank | 1,800,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1 - Quantcast Rank | 1 - Alexa Rank | 1 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: June 1, 2023. The Best Search Engines | eBizMBA 2 | Bing33 - eBizMBA Rank | 500,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 8 - Quantcast Rank | 40 - Alexa Rank | 43 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: June 1, 2023. 3 | Yahoo! 4 | Baidu54 - eBizMBA Rank | 480,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | *150* - Quantcast Rank | 4 - Alexa Rank | 9 - SimilarWeb Rank | Last Updated: June 1, 2023.

How to create multi-page Logins | 1Password 3 User Guide Some websites like banks or business admin portals employ multi-page login systems, usually as a security precaution. The theory is that these systems make it more difficult for a malicious hacker to use scripts and other tools to try and break into someone’s account. It is possible for you to still use 1Password with many of these sites, though you will have to create multiple Logins — one for each page of the site’s login process. The best practice we have found for multi-page login systems is to develop some kind of a naming scheme for each one, like “Bank 1,” “Bank 2,” “Bank 3,” etc. This will keep your Logins organized and easy to use for each step of the process when you want to log back in. Before we get started, click the 1Password button (a key icon) in your browser’s toolbar, select Settings > Logins, and ensure that the “Ask to save new logins” box is checked. How to create your multi-page Logins Step 1: Save the first Login This is where your naming scheme comes in handy.

Multisite Login Multisite Login allows a user to login to all sites in a multisite configuration, even though the multisites do not share domain names. For example: politicker.com politickernj.com politickerny.com etc. NOTE: if you are using several sites on the same domain (ex. politicker.com, nj.politicker.com, ny.politicker.com, etc.), then you do not need this module. This module was designed to be an alternative to the singlesignon module but using a technique that does not block search engines from accessing your websites. You must be: Using a multisite installation.Using a separate database for each site (no table prefixing, though the code could be modified to allow for this, patches welcome). See the README.txt file for more information.

Single sign-on Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them. Conversely, single sign-off is the property whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to multiple software systems. As different applications and resources support different authentication mechanisms, single sign-on must internally translate and store credentials for the different mechanisms, from the credential used for initial authentication. Benefits[edit] Benefits of using single sign-on include: Reducing password fatigue from different user name and password combinationsReducing time spent re-entering passwords for the same identityReducing IT costs due to lower number of IT help desk calls about passwordsIncreases security of third party accounts because long and complicated passwords can be set without needing to remember them.

Crowdsource je werk met (enterprise) social media Social media dringt bij steeds meer organisaties binnen, maar veel mensen weten eigenlijk niet goed hoe ze het in moeten zetten. Ik kijk niet raar meer op als ik mensen "zo, vandaag eens lekker m’n bureau opruimen" zie Yammeren naar 20.000 collega's. Naar situaties waar mensen social media echt gebruiken voor hun werk moet je vaak goed zoeken. In mijn vorige artikel beschreef ik hoe je Enterprise Social Media (ESM) in kunt zetten om effectiever te vergaderen. In dit artikel beschrijf ik een belangrijke competentie die veel professionals moeten ontwikkelen: het crowdsourcen van je werk. Wat is crowdsourcen? Bij crowdsourcing gebruik je de enorme capaciteit van een grote groep mensen om een probleem op te kunnen lossen, nieuwe ideeën op te doen, informatie en kennis te vinden of om kleine taken uit te voeren. Waarom je werk crowdsourcen? Als je een plan moet maken, een voorstel moet schrijven of een onderzoek moet uitvoeren heb je bijna altijd informatie nodig die je zelf niet hebt. Tips

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