Ning created alot of buzz and negative comments due to their sudden switch from a free to premium service. I also had a Ning network, but fortunately never paid much attention to it, rather focusing on other network applications. Some of you weren’t as lucky as me and spent hundreds of hours changing and growing your Ning driven network. Those of you unable to pay for the premium service lost all [...]
Here’s two new Elgg themes from Juipo.com, which I’m pretty sure I haven’t listed yet. Both are pretty simple, but with new added features like the dropdown menu in the Blackpod theme and a lefthand information panel for users not logged in on your mainpage, with the Red Fashion theme. 1. Black Pod SEO Friendly Titles: Reversed Sitename and page/item title so sitename shows after page title, Elgg Topbar is [...]
I’ve noticed more and more visitors come here looking for Social Networking content, themes, plugins and directories. To help you out I’ve opened three new sections in my free link directory, Ning, Elgg and BuddyPress. So if you have a site powered by any of those platforms, feel free to add it to my directory.
I usually don’t post my most difficult questions in my blog, due to the fact that I’m the one who is supposed to sort it out and THEN post about it. This time it’s different. I recently made a post about the new Elgg theme Orkut, which I’m using in my new blogging network, but shortly after I discovered CosmicBuddy, the BuddyPress theme. Now CosmicBuddy provides everything that Elgg already [...]
BuddyDev.com launched a new BuddyPress theme entitled CosmicBuddy. It’s still in beta, but is safe to use. The theme is inspired by Orkut and looks amazing. You can see the full demo here – : http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/comicbuddy/ Download it here – http://buddydev.com/http//buddydev.com/public-download/cosmicbuddy.zip See the official release here - http://buddydev.com/buddypress/cosmic-buddy-the-free-theme-to-turn-your-buddypres-to-orkut-style-site/
Orkut is one of the latest and freshest fully functioning Elgg themes available for download. The theme is provided by Webgalli, who specializes in the design, coding and hosting of Elgg powered sites. It follows a farm fresh theme, is compatible with most plugins and the latest versions of Elgg. You can dowload it straight from Webgalli - http://webgalli.com/?download=Orkut%20Theme
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Ever wanted to run a site similar to Facebook or Orkut? Well, now you can with Elgg. Elgg is a free, fully functioning open source social networking platform. Elgg is very easy to install and comes preloaded with a set of plugins such as : 1. Blogs (Users can open and run their own blogs) 2. Microblogging (Such as Twitter and Facebook status updates.) 3. Messageboard (Such as on Blogcatalog profile [...]
