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Well, I've begun the journey on my own, using WordPress and vBulletins as my two CMS platforms. They've each got a myriad of plugins. (www.visionforce.com)
Yet, I've come up against the dilemma you are speaking of… how to integrate with other sites, without needing to convince my members to “go deep” in my site by creating an extensive profile and building an extensive network, etc. I'm finding ways to integrate with Zaadz and MySpace, and for now am setting it up such that I practically force them to do the social networking at Zaadz, not at VisionForce.
Right now, building a social networking site that could compare to what Zaadz has would require more resources than I have at my disposal.
The question of how to join a ton of sites without always recreating your identity is generating some new solutions, which are going to different forum and membership sites and integrating people's identities across sites. It's exciting to see what develops!
btw, I know Sam, the originator of this pod, is planning/building a kind of generic model for a kind of social networking site (or at least highly interactive web 2.0 site) using Drupal. He's offering to build such sites for people as part of a larger scope consultation arrangement.
Sam, what's the latest on this?
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