Social network style website software

[BFCTom]

Hi,

Is anyone aware of any pre-existing social network type website software?

What the person is trying to create is a site with facebook-like features, ie profiles with images, messages, etc (from what he's told me so far).

He may end up going for a bespoke CMS in the end, but if there's any off the shelf stuff that's decent I'll show him.

Cheers

 

[BFCTom]

Yeah I know that, but I'm not sure a standard CMS would handle the things he's got planned (which I don't know everything yet just doing a bit of research).

I've seen a bit about Facebook connect recently, maybe that could be a route to explore?

I'm no software developer though, I wouldn't be able to build him something custom - we're trying to find something pre-existing that wouldn't be as expensive, that's easy to style.

 

[BFCTom]

Try this http://buddypress.org/,

Built on Wordpress MU so it should be easy for you to edit and template.

That looks great actually, I use Wordpress a lot anyway. Connect with Facebook too, nice!

I'll send a link over and see what he thinks. Cheers for that.