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Community Builder for Joomla CMS is used to build a scablable community site by adding missing functionality to the Joomla CMS.

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This website is in it's third effort as a community. The first was a move of 15 or so members split off of the old builder.com "Buzz" forum. Their own community when builder.com merged with another website after being purchased by another company. The website became commercial, charging a subscription for participation. This did not sit well with many long time members.

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What ever happened to simplicity and keeping on track? These are two mainstays for success in developing software. Why the Aroundme project chose to throw out these things is beyond me. Once on their way to creating a popular PHP clone of the MySpace website they have changed directions and gone with some type of OpenSocial slash OpenID frankenstein. When we first wrote about Aroundme they had a decent offering for social networking software written in PHP. Though not perfect and anything...

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Pligg CMS is about to become a big time contender. With all the trends moving towards social communities Pligg has made itself a niche. While other content management systems have yet to gain on Pligg , Pligg has now made significant gains on the others. Beta 9 has been released and brings with it a number of surprise features.

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Drupal 5.0 beta 1 was released on 2006-10-31. Though it comes with a large list of new features as of this writing there is no official press release. But you can see the changes made here in the changelog. Somethings just cannot be described they have to be experienced. Like the new installation system which may set Drupal up a few notches against other CMS's like Joomla, Mambo and Typo3.

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Pligg the open source PHP CMS which emulates Digg.com continues to improve. The lastest beta release is fill with fixes for annoyances and bugs. If you have been thinking about starting a social news site then Pligg is the tool you want to use. Unlike other CMS this PHP software provides out-of-the-box functionality for users to submit and vote on news and events.

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In today's CMS world where Drupal and Joomla strive to be everything it has become necessary for newcomers to the market to make out-of-the-box names for themselves. Pligg is such a CMS. Installing Pligg gives you a Digg.com like website without knowing PHP or MySQL. Now you can build your own Web 2.0 website, exciting times!

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While surfing around the different PHP developer forums and blogs I have seen the question of a MySpace.com clone come up more and more. The building of specialized social groups based on the MySpace architecture is going to be the next hot trend. But open source software for Social Networking is hard to find. The Barnraiser organisation is out to change this.

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Web developer - Perl is dead. There is nothing that can be done. Pulling the plug and giving it an "Enterprise only" toe tag is all that is left. Why is this and how did it happen? Mostly because PHP is just too easy. In a recent discuss with an aquintance I was asked why don't I write about or test Perl apps. I just replied with...

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Okay, let's get right to the point. There are dozens of open source web publishing systems out there. You are having a hard time choosing one or have choosen one and don't know if it is right for you. Rather than give a bunch of open ended inforamtion and wishing you good luck at the end of the article. I will make the decision for you.

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