hello....

i am new here. this looks like a site with great content. great job.

i have one question. i am looking into creating an online community/social network. does anyone know of any that i may purchase [w/ source code]? no reason to re-invent the wheel i guess. i just want to browse the scene and look for some quality products. if they do not exist, then i will go at it myself. i did a generic search in google/yahoo.... results were lame.

let me know if you get a chance...thanks
-michel

I suggest vBulletin forum software @ vBulletin.com

thank you for replying....

i should have been more specific....

when i mean by online community/social network, i imagine.....

user profiles that include image galleries, blogs, forums, friends list...etc.etc..

thanks!

As such there is hardly any out of box social networking software that exists but I had once gotten vBulletin to mimmick nearly every feature at MySpace. With the hacks available at vBulletin.org, you can pretty much do anything with vB that you want.

Use the openSource Drupal framework. I've written a book on how to create a social network with Drupal, you can download it at: SNIP

The result of the ebook is a site like SNIP

Good luck!

Check out Joomla.

yeah forum software from vBUlletin.com is the best way to go