Tuesday 28 August 2007

Elgg - social platform

Elgg is an open source social platform based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities.

Your users have the freedom to incorporate all their favorite tools within one environment and showcase their content with as many or as few people as they choose, all within a social networking site that you control.

I played with the environment, it looks very nice, but misses some interactive features that students wants. The portfolio element is not that advanced. (see this post of helen barrett)

The platform is developed for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which encompasses weblogging, file storage, RSS aggregation, personal profiles, FOAF functionality and more.

For more information about this product, check their website

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