Global social media finally hit the 1 Billion user mark in 2012 - and there have been no signs of slowed growth since. As they compete, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many others are slowly but surely bringing social networking to every corner of the earth.As a result of such exponential growth, the number of content management systems dedicated to building social networking websites has greatly increased over the years… Read More →
Users of the social networking CMS, Elgg, should be aware of a new update that has been posted on the main website… Read More →
ElggCamp San Francisco is happening March 24th at Parisoma! The Elgg Foundation and Condiminds are organizing an event for developers, social media entrepreneurs, marketing specialists, and anyone interested in using Elgg in social media.
They’re planning a day full of discussion, success stories, Elgg secrets, and networking with Elgg users.
More info: http://elggcampsf.org/
Tickets are limited so register register soon to reserve your spot!
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Check out our more expansive List of Social Networking Software in our Product Directories/Software Lists.So you want to start a Social Network do you? Fear not, there are tons of way to do so, from software you can download to online solutions that are both free / require a fee. There's definitely more than one way to make it happen. Check out our list of Social Network Software below for some great options.What you'll find below is a mix of free and commercial solutions designed to make starting a social network as easy as can be… Read More →
Elgg is a free, open source CMS that has been around for a number of years. Over the years, the community has grown exponentially and now boasts a rather active set of users. With a plugin repository of over 1000 available plugins for the system, it has quickly become the go to CMS for open source social networking.Today, we're going to take you through the CMS and show you what it's made of in this Elgg Review.
One thing to point out before we proceed, however. When it comes to Elgg, one must realize that it is similar to Drupal in a number of ways… Read More →
Elgg (news) 1.7.8 contains important security enhancements and bugfixes… Read More →
Georg-Christian Pranschke from http://www.sensepost.com/ discovered a vulnerability in Elgg that could potentially allow SQL injection attacks using crafted URLs or POSTs… Read More →
A new version of the popular open source social networking CMS, Elgg has been released! 1.7.2 is primarily a bugfix release.
Here is a brief list of some of the more annoying bugs that were squashed:
Saving drafts and previewing blogs works as expected.
Page titles can now be edited in the Pages plugin.
Group names no long show up in Friends Collections.
Added a group member listing page.
Group forum topics can be edited.
User data for usernames with UTF8 characters are correctly migrated to the new data scheme… Read More →
Described as the open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments, Elgg, was first created back in 2004 and built to run on the popular php/mysql combination. Elgg is easily installed once a database and its proper credentials have been created.
In my test install, I created a new website at my web host and FTP'd the necessary files to install Elgg 1.6.1 to the root of my new site… Read More →
The Elgg team have released a new update to the popular open source social networking cms.
Version 1.6.1 brings about the following changes:
Errors on registration with Default Widgets enabled
Broken tag search
Broken "Tools Administration" page when simplecache is disabled
Bookmark links missing
"View friends resources" links not working
Full details and download available on the Elgg site.
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