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Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with running any of the
growing number of open source social networking platforms - eg elgg,
phpizabi, PHP Social Flies etc etc
Jul 5 '08 #1
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Gr************@ googlemail.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with running any of the
growing number of open source social networking platforms - eg elgg,
phpizabi, PHP Social Flies etc etc
No, but I want to hear a constructive answer to this question too.
There is a gaping need for a sophisticated *academic* social networking
platform. Academici is a start. But as
http://ejohn.org/blog/social_academic/ complains: much is missing.
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/* Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh >--O0>
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