Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network - 0 views
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hese up-and-coming companies provide so-called “white label” social networking platforms that enable their customers to build their own social networks (often from scratch) and to tailor those networks to a range of purposes.
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The idea of white labeling a network is to make the platform provider as invisible as possible to the social network’s users and to brand the network with the builder’s identity or intent.
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The first provides hosted, do-it-yourself solutions with which customers can largely point and click their way to a brand new social network.
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There are roughly three types of companies that have emerged in the space of white label social networking.
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We have taken a sample of nine of these companies – Ning, KickApps, CrowdVine, GoingOn, CollectiveX, Me.com, PeopleAggregator, Haystack, and ONEsite – all of which provide free baseline services, and reviewed them individually below.
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The second type of company provides social networking software for download and installation onto one’s server.