Social networking applications help you create your own version of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut etc. Using Social Networking Apps, you can:

• Create a full-featured social environment.
• Customize your social networks with free widgets & plugins.
• Make a community for just you & your friends

Let us walk you through the Social Networking applications, we have on our platform:

Elgg

Elgg, professional social networking software supported with fully featured tools for blogging, news aggregation, file sharing and messaging, helps you to set up tiered user profiles and configure basic options like a community name and a directory for user uploads. Its Spotlight feature allows specific content to be displayed to users as soon as they are on the site. The Activity stream displays updates from you and your friends and contacts, as well as other activity throughout the community. LimeDomains currently supports version 1.2 of Elgg.

Some of the popular themes of Elgg are:

Purpleround: This theme has rounded boxes on the widget pages (profile and dashboard), and rounded title areas on all other pages.

Simpleblackbluetech: This theme has been created as a starting point for theming. So, you can see the elements that go into making a theme plugin.

Divexit: It’s a unique elegant theme for Elgg

E-OSX: It’s a Green Rounded Theme.

EOSX Blue Lava: Base on Green Rounded Theme. It entails skins for the following plugins namely, all core plugins (profile, groups, admin stuff etc), blog, bookmarks, file, friends, messageboard, messages, pages, status, twitter etc.

osDate

osDate, a dating & matchmaking application, can be easily integrated with all leading bulletin boards (phpBB, vBulletin etc.) and FlashChat. It also offers multiple payment modules & multiple skins to users besides multiple templates to choose from for the desired look & feel of your website. LimeDomains currently supports version 2.1.7 of osDate.

Some of the popular themes of osDate are:

edel_osdate_design: Interesting design directed or suitable partner for online agencies with demanding Singles at 30th.

esl-2.1: A red template with a simple yet attractive look.

esl-2.1-gelb: A template with yellow feel.

esl-night: A template inspired by darkness; combination of red and black.

esl-4you: A template stripped down to bare minimal without any extra features.

Now that you’re aware of the great set of features these social networking applications have, you must create a community website of your own. So get started with taking the advantage of Web 2.0 community building tools at LimeDomains!

What idea pops up in your mind when you hear about the launch of yet another social networking website? Certainly the following one….Oh no! Not anymore. Yet when your Inbox receives a message of getting registered on the same, you easily fall prey to click on the registration link received in the mail.

Generally speaking, these sites offer platforms to people like you & us for connecting with friends, building our social network & sharing photos, videos etc.

The biggest advantage of a social networking site is how you can build and use the network with friends, business associates and people with similar interests. Social networking sites are bringing people closer together and helping them to interact and share their thoughts within the group, no matter where in the world they are,” says N S Muthukumaran, director, online research, The Nielsen Company.

The social networking websites are faring exceedingly well on the Web, and have defined the way youth & adult across the globe communicates. Seeing a vast plethora of opportunities, almost every organization wishes to join the bandwagon of this networking wave & grab a pie.  We, at LimeDomains, have also created our groups on some prominent social networking platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter, where you can join us.

To validate the growing influence of these sites, let us give you some interesting statistics. According to a study conducted by Tyroo Media, social networking sites such as Orkut & Facebook account for more than 44% of the total Internet traffic in India. Also, more than 75% online marketers plan to increase their investments on social media campaigns in next 3 years.

An intriguing result has surfaced—these sites are being used for job hunting by job seekers. HR firm Manpower recently conducted a survey. The survey results reveal that 17% respondents use these sites for finding potential employers, 10% for networking & generating new business prospects & 17% for other work-related objectives.

Social networking websites contribute remarkably in the creation of markets, where social networks matter a lot by inducing ‘competitive altruism’. For instance, an IT worker based in Sydney, Australia can recommend the driver of his colleague to all his friends on Facebook. Hopefully, the word may spread and the driver may end up getting a job for himself.

Also, the varied applications on these sites such as Causes & groups such as Blood Donation Group on Facebook help in making your presence worth on the platform. These get featured on your profile home page, broadcast the action, create awareness in your network & contribute in charity work to an extent.

With this information handy, you might wish to create your own social networking website. We, at LimeDomains, are ready to help you out in creating a social networking website with applications such as Elgg and osDate.

Get started with taking advantage of Web 2.0 community building tools!

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