Due to the popularity of sites such as MySpace and FaceBook, people have been searching on how to build a social network. The highly popular sites are custom jobs but there are free social network software like MySpace and YouTube.
Before going on with the free social networking scripts, let us determine first the social network requirements. We usually need a blogging component, some profile page a la MySpace, and a forum of sort for community discussion. We should look for these capabilities in a social networking script.
An old hand, and therefore proven and tested to be stable, at social networks is the free script elgg. It started out as university project to get the professors and students connected. It is now one of the most popular social network script.
A recent newcomer is BuddyPress, based on the popular multi-blogging platform Wordpress-MU. Coming from the creators of WordPress, BuddyPress will soon be up there with the rest of the free scripts in popularity.
Finally, if we have some web development talents, we can always tweak and customize a Drupal installation into a social network. Drupal is an extremely versatile and powerful Content Management System (CMS).
Actually, the most difficult part of building an online social network is finding our niche and getting members to join. 
Today marks the day Filipinos threw the yoke of centuries of foreign oppression, may it also signify the beggining of the end of the tyranny that grips our beloved nation.
Bayan kong Mahal
Google’s logo for it’s dot com dot ph domain on June 12, 2009
Ako ay Pilipino
Buong katapatang nanunumpa
Sa watawat ng Pilipinas
At sa bansang kanyang sinasagisag
Na [...]
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NOTE: This is a guest post by Mack of The Marketing Effect.
Everyone is talking about Twitter these days and you might have heard about people who are making money with this free service. This is true. You really can make money online with Twitter.
In case you didn’t know, Twitter is, as they call it, [...]
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Photo was found at HaitiAction.net
BlogCatalog, Heifer International, and the blogosphere will focus attention on the plight of the hungry today, April 29, 2009, with the theme Hunger and Hope. This reminded us of an article at National Geographics we stumbled into last year about the poor in Haiti resorting to eating mud cookies to stave [...]
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A while back, we’ve finally caved in and created a twitter account for one of our online endeavors. That’s how we learned of an ad company based in the U.K. that offers cash in exchange for allowing them to insert some sponsored tweets among ours, Be-A-Magpie.
We will let this image do most of the explaining [...]
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