BW )(: Facebook, MySpace - who needs 'em...

[Andy]

2008/10/6 MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop>

> "Andy S" <andys at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
> > http://www.elgg.org/  [...] Anyone tried it
> > or uses an existing (Elgg powered) one?
>
> I'm trying Elgg-powered http://www.unltdworld.com/ but I'm
> underwhelmed so far - it's all hidden behind a login (no public
> profile pages like the "big" social networks) and you have to put data
> onto it specifically, except for it being able to read "shoutbox"
> posts from the non-free twitter website.
>
> I think noserub (which I'm testing at
> http://cooperativemagazine.co.uk/ ) is a better candidate, because it
> connects everything and has both public and private pages, but that's
> not as slick yet.  Registration is particularly confusing in the
> version that's on the site just now.
>
> If anyone's got a pot of cash to pay us to do some website
> development on one of these things, please let me know...
>
> Regards,
> --


I would have thought that any decent social or other networking site
software would have privacy policies at it's core - of course how much
privacy should be up to individual users and if nobody actually joins there
would be nothing to see 'from the outside' anyway!

Will have a peek at the noserub site later..

A


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