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Video Social Network Open Source CMS

If you are a youtubeanholic and wish to build your own video social network (YouTube alike), you can buy scripts on the market, but if you'd like to get it free?

Try PHP Director - an open source content management system for building video social networks (looks like - yes - Drupal based).

With PHP Director you can import videos from YouTube, Daily Motion and Google Video, add ratings, categories, search, support languages. Moreover users can submit their videos for including into your video social network. Script has tagging system, multiusers registration, support for flv, wmv, mov (meaning you can make even more media social networks).

Open Source Social Networking

Since it seems everyone these days wants to roll your own social network, I would like to present some open source social networking software to you.

Insoshi - open source social networking platform. Activity feed, Personal profiles with photo upload and comment walls, Internal messaging system with read/replied/trashed messages, Contacts list, Blogs with comments, Discussion forum, Search for profiles, forums, blogs, Admin panel with site preferences, option for email verification and activity notifications.

PhpIzabi - open source social networking platform: Internal messages system, Forums, Chatrooms, Files sharing, Customizable profile, Personal Gallery, Personal Blog, User settings panel, Contacts list, Contacts categorization, Contacts management, Newsletter, Horoscope, Profile / pictures rating, Users comments, Events calendar, Personal events, multilanguage, mass mail, tell a friend, invite a friend, advanced search, contact us system, bookmark link,..

Elgg - the open source social networking platform, started in 2004. Was designed to allow people to easily connect and share resources. Built on LAMP, aimed primarily at education. Features: Blogging, Social networking, File repositories for individuals, Podcast support, Full access controls, Supports tagging, User profiles, Full RSS support, RSS aggregator, Create communities, Collaborative community blogs, Create ''friends'' networks, Import content, Multilingual, Branding/customisation.

Pligg - (Digg-like) visitors can submit resources for ranking. Also, trackback support, automatic title discovery, RSS import functionality.

Akarru - is a social bookmarking engine, is used to build social bookmarkings sites. Users posts links and promote links using voting system.

PhpDug - Digg-like social script.

Classifying User Generated Content

User Generated Content (UGС) is a very popular theme nowaday. All related aspects are very interesting: SEO - UGС, Social Marketing - UGС, but question is - what methods for classifying User Generated Content we can use.

• 1. Volume/Scale
• 2. Publicness/Privacy
• 3. Frequency
    How regularly is the content created?
• 4. Reach
    Defines the size of the audience impacted by the UGC.
• 5. Purpose
    a) Commercial - with the eventual objective of generating interest in selling a product or service;
    b) Social - intended to connect to other users for the purposes of establishing or fulfilling a relationship with them;
    c) Transformational - containing information or ideas intended to educate, inform or influence the readership.
• 6. Validity
    a) The credibility of the content generator established through reputation, tone, qualifications, or depth of research
    b) The quality and accuracy of the content
    c) The appropriateness of the content to the audience that receives it, does it answer their needs?
• 7. Medium
• 8. Message
    How user generated message correlates to auditory from the point of Sociology. The Purpose is pragmatics. Message is semantics.
• 9. Tone - negative, neutral, positive
• 10. Cites - adopted quotations, references to the extraneous resources

As SEO Freelancer I look forward to find anything promising of UGС metrics.

User Generated Content And SEO

User Generated Content, especially, high-quality User Generated Content (UGC) is what we all need for successful organic SEO. UGC brings us healthy traffic, low level 'long tail' keywords, free promo. For that we can hire freelance copywriter, buy ready-to-fly articles on any theme, put our boat on water of 'dofollow' fashion, do anything just to invite hungry users to generate that holly USG. Recent study shows 58% of the users, 18-25 years old, browse to create their own content.

Well, you made very appealing nice site and users come to leave you its raw user content 2 tons everyday. From SEO point of view you can't ask them to write search engine optimized text with bold keywords, but you can rule them into right direction with a smart category listing. So, Topically Focused Content is our next hero.

Some say UGC will destroy SEO. I don't think so, because the connective filament from you to UGC is still Search Engine querie.