I was looking through the domains I own, and one of them set off a light bulb in me head.
I have theraiclan.com and I do recall that at the time I got it, I imagined doing something centred around my family. Looking at it today, I suddenly thought of making a social network for the whole clan. Which could number in the thousands. (Yes, there’s a gazillion Rais out there, and where I come from, there’s a very loose definition of ‘family’.)
Would be nice to have a family tree/connection kinda thing, plus a place to interact, plus public and private spaces. Ideas are still firing in my brain, but this is where I’d start.
Now, I’m not hugely technical, and I can’t think of the tools I could use off-hand which do what I want and are easy to integrate. Plus it’d have to be easy to use for n00bs and g33ks alike.
Any ideas? (And no, Facebook doesn’t count :P)
You already have all the tools at your displosal. Start with a web-mash based site, for your base, and find the widgets that help you to achieve what your looking for… Something like netvibes.com and use an HTML embed widget to embed a tangler forum or tangler live discussion, and you have your “comment wall”. etcetera until you have all the features you want.
What things are you looking to integrate?
If you are not technical, try to use a CMS (Joomla, WordPress…) and then, as Pseudyx said, just install some widgets/plugins.
Ning?
http://www.ning.com/
hmmm… yeah, will prob end up doing something like that, Pseudyx & Loic. However, not too keen on someone else owning the stuff the community might end up producing. Which is an issue with widgets (inc a TanglerLive embed) or Ning. :-/
check out http://lovdbyless.com/ – they are a open source social network Rails app. Take, host, tweak & release!
Hey, lovdbyless looks promising! Pretty much what I’ve been looking for. Thanks Chris!
Community sites usually translate to ‘Drupal’ for me. Drop me a line if you want to know more/chat about it.
Drupal sounds scary 🙂
Will hit you up for info when I look into it. Thanks!