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In This Article:

1. Open-Source Online Community and Social Network
2. Open-Source Community and Social Network on Mobile
3. The Growth of Open-Source Community and Social Network
4. The Potential of Social Network

Things You Might Not Know About Social Network and Open-Source Online Community

Open-Source Online Community and Social Network

We describe Social Network as a network or community in which individuals with similar interests exchange information via accessible and scalable publishing mechanisms. Individuals are transitioning from passive content consumers to active content creators due to social media. Social network platforms include Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Until recently, social media platforms were almost never distributed under open source licenses, which meant that users may use them but not necessarily alter or share them.

An open-source online community is defined as a collaborative development model created by an online community. It uses the power of widespread peer review and process transparency to create publicly available code licensed under an open-source license. To encourage innovation, open-source relies on a distributed developer community. The core belief held by open source developers is that group thought has greater power than individual thinking.

Open-Source Community and Social Network on Mobile

Nowadays, everyone owns at least one mobile device meaning having a mobile version of your open-source online community is a must. 

When everything went digital, businesses tightened their internal controls, erecting walls to safeguard their source code. As the quality and popularity of open source projects grew, more corporations realized that the cost of innovation and competitiveness might be too high when compared to rivals that utilize open-source software. This is now being witnessed in the mobile industry.

It is predicted that four billion individuals will have joined the global mobile conversation by 2010. Mobile firms recognize that a generation’s first Internet, camera, music player, and phone experiences will all occur on a mobile device.

The Growth of Open-Source Community and Social Network

According to a Gartner survey, as Matt Asay of CNET reported, CIOs have boosted their investment in open source software while decreasing their investment in proprietary software. They can do the following by investing in open source:

• 87 percent cost savings (while meeting or exceeding expectations)
• 92 percent higher quality
• 86 percent easier integration and customization
• increase the rate of innovation by 82%
• 84 percent increase in support
• 91% increase in standard compliance
• 82 percent reduction in time to market

An open-source online community provides the advantage of constant user feedback and cooperation to help build software that fulfills the needs of businesses, consumers, and developers. Communication is also at the heart of Social Media, as the purpose of a social network is to provide a user-driven and -managed experience through community building. 

A social network facilitates community connection by connecting people with similar interests to exchange ideas and experiences. Because of the ease of use of social media, more users contribute and communicate than in a conventional open-source group.

The video Social Media Revolution illustrates the evolution and influence of social media. It includes data such as:

• One in every twenty Internet visits in the United States goes to one of the top twenty social networking sites, reflecting a twofold increase over the previous year.
• 85 percent of Canadians visit a social networking site regularly, while 63 percent visit a blog regularly.

Businesses and organizations are beginning to recognize the worth and strength of enormous populations that may be addressed through Social Media. Corporations are shifting away from a closed style of information sharing and toward a more open strategy that communicates via Social Media platforms.

The Potential of Social Network

The debut of Google Wave at the Google IO 2009 Conference is a great example of the open-source and social media worlds converging. Google claims: “Google Wave is an instant messaging network. It integrates elements of email, instant messaging, wikis, online chat, social networking, and project management to create a sleek in-browser communication client. You may gather a group of friends or business colleagues to talk about your day or share files.”

These features include:

• Embeddability: Waves are easily embeddable on any blog or website.

• Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect spelling, even distinguishing between identical words like “been” and “bean.” It can also automatically translate on the fly.

• Real-time support: you can usually see what someone else is typing, character by character.

• Applications and extensions: Within waves, developers may create their applications. These can range from basic bots to sophisticated real-time games.

• Drag-and-drop file sharing: There are no attachments with drag-and-drop file sharing. Drag & drop a file into Google Wave, and everyone will have access to it.

• Wiki functionality: Because all interactions inside the platform are shared, anything written within a Google Wave may be changed by anybody else. Within a growing dialogue, you may update and modify the material or contribute your own remark.

• Playback: You can replay any segment of the wave to hear what was spoken.

• Open source license: Google Wave code will be provided under an open-source license to encourage developer creativity and adoption.

We think that as developers continue to incorporate the usability and interactivity of social media into their development techniques, the worlds of open source and social media will become increasingly intertwined. More enterprises and organizations will use open source and social media technology to achieve their objectives and create possibilities in the future. Social media will continue to increase in popularity as a communication medium, and more Social Media technologies will be released under open-source licenses over time.

phpFox is one of the best alternatives for creating an online community and social networks. With a variety of built-in capabilities, you may configure your network in any manner you see suitable. Not only that, but our team of skilled developers and IT support staff is always ready to assist you when you need it. So what are your thoughts? Are you ready to begin selling on social media?

Contact us now and let us help you bring your ideal social network to life.

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Great news! We’ve added a free phpFox Trial Version so you can fully test the phpFox script on your own server before purchasing.

Our new trial version is the same script you would be purchasing. If you love it, all you’ll need to do is pay when you get a notice before the end of your trial period and you can keep what you’ve already set up during the trial. You’ll just need to unlock it via a simple process after purchase.

Should you decide it’s not right for you, during the trial, no problem, the script will be disabled and you should delete it from your server.

Since we are adding a trial, we have changed our refund policy going forward. Those that purchased before the trial licenses started will still have the same 30 day guarantee that was in place for your purchase. Anyone that purchases after our trial is enabled will not have a refund period as the trial gives 14 days to fully test the script. The only exception to this would be if you are unable to install the script to your server after purchase and if you purchase install, if our team is unable to install. This requires the server meets our requirements.

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Any versions below Neutron v4.4.3 will need to run the full upgrade routine.

Also note that our requirements are updated and you will need a minimum of PHP 5.5 in order to use Neutron v4.

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Any versions below Neutron v4.4.2 will also need to run the full upgrade routine.

Also note that our requirements are updated and you will need a minimum of PHP 5.5 in order to use Neutron v4.

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If you missed the first Sneak Peek, be sure to check it out! Now, check out this news! Hold on to your socks folks because that’ll knock’em off if you don’t. They’ve got:

• WYSIWYG Editor! That’s right an editor! They’ll be adding CKeditor for all of you that wanted to have an editor. Isn’t that great? 
• Document Link in AdminCP. This will make it easier for admins to find the documents area. 
• Admin Demo and Trial version. They already have a video demo but an Admin demo is in the works. Trial version is also in the works, more details will come later.

How does that rock your world? Rocks mine pretty well, I should say. It sounds like the phpFox team really has some great things planned, and from what I hear, there’s even more in the works but they haven’t let me into that secret lab yet to see.

Since upgrading is a snap, you should get your site started now so that you can just easily upgrade to v4.5 when it’s out and be ready to roll! Want a discount to get your copy of phpFox? Check this out!

It’s that time! CMS Critic annual CMS Critic Awards are open for voting and we need your help to get phpFox to win the Best Social Network Software award as we’ve done in the past.

Please use this form and choose phpFox for the category Best Social Network Software.

The deadline for voting is November 1, 2016 with voting beginning September 15, 2016.

Please show the love for phpFox! We’re confident we can win this and be on top again! Our community ROCKS! Our clients are the absolute best and the foundation of what drives us to keep pushing and striving for excellence!

As a thank you for those that vote, we are giving a 25% discount for a phpFox Neutron Pro license purchase! Just send us a screenshot of your completed vote to get your code.

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Neutron 4.5 is cooking up nicely. Looks like they’ve been very busy cooking up some great goodies for this release. Not only did they have some amazing folks contributing feature requests at the official Github, but they also had some ideas from their talented team to bring to you. Read on for all the juicy details and a discount!

In addition to everything listed in the  Github accepted features, here are some more great improvements and new features!

• Applications
  • Single Device Sign-In: to enable “notification” and “security” when login in another device at the same time.
  • Backup and Restore: fully backup your site into local server or remote storage such as DropBox and S3.
  • Better Ads System: Many enhanced features for Ads system, then you will have more control over Ads. Great news, right?
  • RESTful API – that’s what you all are waiting for.
• Performance with Major Cache Improvement.
• Themes – RTL Native Layout Support
• Enhancements:
  • Phrase System for better multilingual support.
  • Profile Photo Crop for Pages and Groups.
  • Cover Photo – allow reposition for Profiles, Pages and Groups.
  • Improvements in Photo, Forum and other applications.
  • Better Privacy, Block Controllers.
  • Better username, page vanity url or group vanity url control.
  • Track module improvements. Allows admins the ability to set whether the view count shows, and also to show one view each time something is viewed per user.
  • And much more …

How’s that for an exciting release? If you already have a phpFox license and are using phpFox v4, you’ll be able to download this and have all of these exciting features in the Pro version! Don’t have our Pro version? That’s not a problem! Just go to your account and purchase the license upgrade from your current license type to the Pro version for the difference in price. Easy as pie!

No license? No problem! Order now and get your site started and then do the easy upgrade steps once we release this. That way, you already have a head start on your site and can have some awesome features once Neutron 4.5 is released.

To celebrate all the great work of the team, and the return of yours truly, here’s a 5% discount!

Discount Voucher is: philisback

This sale will start on Friday, September 9th at 12:00am, and end on Saturday, September 17th 2016 at 11:59 p.m EST as long as supplies of discount vouchers last.

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Great news! Contrary to some rumors circulating from questionable sources, phpFox is definitely not ending! In fact, we are doing quite the opposite. We are Rockin‘! We have some amazing things planned and in the works to really knock your socks off!!

It was brought to our attention that a disgruntled, minor third-party developer that had left his clients in the dust when he left the phpFox world has made some defamatory and libelous claims regarding the demise of phpFox in order to gain sales. First, our lawyers are on top of the slanderous and libelous claims. Secondly, and most important, if you got a notice or saw anything online stating that phpFox is ending, the claims are NOT from a key developer. That person was never a phpFox core developer nor was he a major player in the phpFox developer community.

Now to focus on our product, which is amazing and getting more amazing every day! We have some awesome features coming with our v4.5 Neutron release that is coming very soon. We’ll post a separate blog for that though, so we can really focus on the features we have.

We have some great things in store for our current and future clients. Our plans stretch years into the future, so we are here to stay and plan on a very long, happy and successful future in the Social Network Script market!

Now for the party!! To celebrate phpFox and its long life and brilliant future, we are giving a whopping 20% discount for our celebration!! You know you want this right? Of course you do! No other script compares to our phpFox Rockin’ Neutron!!

This discount is available until the end of August! WOW!!

The discount is for 20% starting on Thursday, August 25th:
The discount voucher is: celebratefox2016

This sale will start on Friday, August 25th at 12:00 a.m, and end on Wednesday, August 31st at 11:59 p.m EST as long as supplies of discount vouchers last.

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A Niche can be very important in distinguishing your website from the billions of sites already on the world wide web. This article will focus on how to build a Successful Social Website with Niche Markets.

First, let’s define what a Niche is.

Merriam-Webster defines Niche as thus (note that we only took definition 2(a and d) as it applies to this article):

a :  a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted <finally found her niche>

d :  a specialized market

As you can see above, a Niche is basically a focus as opposed to being just a general site with no focus at all. Niches can be anything that you choose to focus on for your site – as item “d” above says – a specialized market.

Many people want to be just like Facebook©. Frequently, our phpFox script is called a “Facebook clone script” because it has so many similar features that allow you to make a site similar to Facebook. Since it wouldn’t be good to copy Facebook, as your users are probably already on it and won’t see a reason to use another site exactly like it, a Niche is what you need.

Now that we know what a Niche is, we can focus on using a Niche for your website. “But, how do I find the best Niche,” you may ask.  It’s a good idea to focus on things you have experience with, that way you can generate content for your niche and provide great information to engage your users.

Business/Professional Expertise

A great Niche can come from your work. Whatever profession you have experience in can also make a great idea for a social network for business professionals. Just look at LinkedIn for one example of a successful Niche type of site. LinkedIn is a “business-oriented social networking service” ~wikipedia. Its focus is on business and business contacts – professional networking. You can make a successful site based on your business experience and expertise.

Hobbies

Hobbies make a compelling social network idea as you get like-minded individuals sharing ideas, tips, etc. One Niche that comes to mind is Etsy, but that’s more for shopping for handmade items. However, since it does have a specific focus (niche), it’s a good example. Pinterest is another one, very popular Niche site for sharing ideas. You may ask how is Pinterest a Niche as it has so many different things in it. It started out focusing on ideas. Sharing ideas. That’s a type of a niche as it is focused on a particular topic that people are interested in. It has grown from that to be for all kinds of sharing, but, it started as a focus.

Perhaps you like painting, pottery, sports, RC cars, etc. There are so many hobbies that you should be able to find a hobby niche and make a great site with it.

Education

School alumni sites would be a good social network Niche site. You can find many popular college sport’s fan sites but there are other Niche sites you could make. Perhaps something for teachers, parents, homework help or tutoring, fraternities, etc.

From the above ideas, you should be able to find a great Niche, something that your site specializes in, that you can use to succeed with your website. Make sure it’s something you are interested in as you’ll want a lot of content to start your site.

Facebook started as a Niche site as one example of how successful a Niche can be. As this Wikipedia article shows, Facebook started as a Niche for college students. We all know how successful it became just from starting with that one focus, college students. As of the last statistics, it has about 1.65 billion users. Not bad for a small Niche start!

Chances are if you have a passion for something, someone else does too. Whether it’s the above-mentioned topics, or fetishes, phobias, causes or politics, etc., you can make a successful social network site from Niche Markets.

How would you do that? Well, the phpFox script has a lot of ways you can customize your site. For a niche, you might want to change the default phrases to match your niche. For example, let’s say you made a niche site for people that like medieval stuff.

• Site name: Medieval Marvels
• Menus: Marketplace changed to Shoppe
• Forum – Tavern
• Feed – Ye Town Crier
• Phrases changed from “you” to “ye”.

You get the idea. You would want to change things in the site to make the user feel that they are “in” that niche when on your site. Make them feel at home and make your site unique so that they keep coming back for more because they can’t get what you have on other sites.

You can make a very successful Niche site by putting a little effort into making it unique, focused, and with content to keep your users coming back. Adding content is critical to a site’s success. Write some blogs, forum topics, post photos, whatever you can do in order to keep users on the site. Once they are there, they tend to naturally want to contribute and so your site will grow from that. When they do contribute, encourage them more by posting comments or “liking” their posts. You’ll find that the more they are encouraged, the more they come back and also, they will invite their friends, family, etc and help grow your site.

As we mentioned above, Facebook started as a small niche focused just on one particular college and grew to a mega-huge success. If you take your passion, expertise, and creativity, you too can have a successful Niche site. It all starts with a dream! Get started on your dream today with phpFox social network script – the best social network platform.

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