Comparison of social networking software

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Social networking software provide the basis for community driven content and social/business networking.

Social networking software comparison [edit]

Category Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BuddyPress ELGG Mugshot (Discontinued) Drupal Telligent Community ImpressCMS Joomla! Oxwall phpFox XOOPS SocialEngine Kune
Last Access 2011-02-21 2010-03-25 2012-03-07 2008-10-31 2008-11-02 2009-06-23 2012-04-22 2007-03-05 2013-04-08 2011-03-10 2010-06-06 2012-02-24 2012-04-22
License LGPL 2.1[1] GPL 2.0 Open source under the GPL 2.0[2] [6] GPL 2.0 GPL 2.0[3] [7] Custom GPL 2.0 GPL 2.0 CPAL 1.0 Custom[4] GPL 2.0 Custom AGPLv3
Cost Free Free Free Free Free Per License Free Free Free $99, $199, $299 Free from $299, to $669 with all options Free
Source Code Yes Yes Freely available via stable releases and development SVN Terminated[5] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Version 9.0 1.6.4 1.8.13 N/A 5.12, 6.16 5.0 1.3.2 1.5.20 1.5.2 3.3.0 2.4.4 4.7 0.2.0 (beta/production)
Installation Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box ? Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box/hosted Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box Out of the box (deb package)
Codebase PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL ? PHP, MySQL ASP.NET 3.5 / Microsoft SQL Server PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL PHP, MySQL Java-based GWT, auto-generated AJAX
SSO support OpenID + LDAP + Active Directory built in Facebook Connect Twitter Connect LDAP OpenID (via plugins) LDAP built in, OpenID by plugin No OpenID, module OpenID LDAP Active Directory Facebook Cookie Forms OpenID + LDAP + Yubikey + Active Directory built in OpenID, module Facebook Connect Facebook Connect LDAP + Active Directory built in Facebook Connect, module Under development
RSS Yes Yes Blog, Files, Groups, Users, Tags Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes ? ?
RSS Reader/Aggregator Yes No Yes Simple aggregator from many sites Module Yes Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ? ?
Access control Yes User levels, Groups Users, groups (extensible via plugins) Group-based Yes Yes Users, Groups Yes Users roles Users, Groups Users, Groups Users levels, Groups, Pages Users (with roles), Groups
Wiki Yes Plugin Plugin No Module Yes Module No No Plugin Module No Yes
Forum Yes Yes Plugin No Yes Yes Module Component Plugin Yes Module Plugin, $40 Yes
Blog Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Module Yes Plugin Yes Module Plugin, $40 Yes
Media sharing File Galleries (Image, Video, Audio) and Kaltura integration[6] via choice of plugins Image, video, audio, documents, any filetype, automatic podcast support (Kaltura Elgg Plugin)[7] ? Module (Kaltura All-in-One Video Module)[8] Yes Yes ? via plugins Yes Yes plugins : Photo $40, Music $30, Video $40 Image, Video, Audio, Maps, etc
Messaging Yes Yes Yes Yes Module Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes XMPP compliant & chat-rooms
Event Calendar Yes Plugin Plugin ? Module Module Module Plugin Plugin Yes Module Plugin, $40 Yes
Social Grouping Yes Yes Yes ? Module Yes Module Plugin Plugin Yes Module Plugin, $40 Yes
Tagging Yes Forum tagging and Group tagging via plugin Yes ? Module Yes Module ? Yes Yes Module Plugin, $40 Under development
Connectivity Webservices Plugin (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube) Plugin (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, VEOH) ? via third party integration like Octazen scripts Facebook, Google, Content Mirroring, RSS importer, External Widgets @all by Module ? Yes Module Yes Depends
Bookmark Sharing / Management Yes ? via plugin ? ? Module @all by Module ? Plugin Yes Yes Facebook, Twitter ?
Poll Generation/Tally Yes ? Plugin ? Yes ? Yes Yes ? Yes Module Yes Yes
Contact Management Yes ? Yes ? ? Yes Module ? Yes Yes Module Yes Yes
Supports the Semantic Web ? ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? Under development
Supports DataPortability ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ?
Customizable Yes Yes, based on WordPress theme and plugin architecture Extensible via plugins with a flexible API; skinnable; available in many languages ? Module Extensible via plugins, widgets, tasks, events, REST; skinnable; available in many languages Module, Plugins, ImpressCMS Persitable Framework (IPF) ? Open source, Plugins, Themes, Events, Widgets Yes Module Yes Open source; extensible via gadgets (wave extensions) & via modules; skinnable; available in many languages
Comment Based on WordPress. "Clean, simple" More like RSS aggrators Community and collaboration platform with many integrated core applications Content management Customizable Facebook-style newsfeed Modular approach.[9] plugin based, white label, well documented, 30 days free trial Federated, focused on real-time group collaboration and social networking, wave-based
Category Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware BuddyPress ELGG Mugshot (Discontinued) Drupal Telligent Community ImpressCMS Joomla! Oxwall phpFox XOOPS SocialEngine Kune

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Tiki Wiki License (GNU Lesser General Public License v. 2.1)". Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "Elgg License". Elgg Open Source Social Networking Engine. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  3. ^ "About Drupal". Drupal Open Source CMS. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  4. ^ "phpFox License Agreement". phpFox Social Networking Script. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  5. ^ "Subversion". Mugshot Developer Wiki. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. 
  6. ^ "Kaltura". Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  7. ^ "Kaltura Collaborative Video Plugin". The Elgg Community. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  8. ^ "Kaltura's Open Source All-in-One Video Module for Drupal". Drupal Open Source CMS. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  9. ^ "Why XOOPS?". XOOPS Web Application System. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
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