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Web 2.0? Web 3.0!

In case you don't know what Web 2.0 is, you can off this page, as I like to tell the secret - what is Web 3.0. Matt Thompson, senior director for open source from Sun Microsystems, knows that. He says there is not a big difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 paradigm, simply 'users would be a lot more empowered to get what they want online.' I will add:

• Web 3.0 is mostly Wireless Mobile World
• users can create their own applications (WIP)
• network computing, software-as-a-service business models, cloud computing
• open technologies, open-source software
• open identity
• Semantic Web
• distributed databases
• natural language processing

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Ruby On Social Rails

If you know what Ruby on Rails is, you might be interested into free open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails called CommunityEngine which recently was published generous Bruno Bornsztein, a Ruby on Rails developer.

CommunityEngine has rich features for a community site:

• Authentication (sign up, log in)
• Rich user profiles
• Find User
• Blogs using categories, tagging, Word-like text editing
• Image uploading and image tagging
• “Clippings” - visual bookmarks
• Commenting
• Forums
• Friendships and activity feeds
• Favoriting of clippings and blog posts
• And more!

Also, you can check other open source plarforms, like

• LovdByLess
• Insoshi
• OneBody

Ruby on Rails is a popular solution of Ruby fans, but, unfortunately, rare bird for hosting providers, which are basicaly all LAMPed.

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.