A few years ago I wrote about StatusNET, a self-hosted Twitter clone. Since then, a few things have changed. Twitter will probably be sold to whoever finally decides to risk it and StatusNET is now GNU Social. That makes it a time as good as any to have another look at what’s changed and whether…
In a Nutshell Buddypress is a WordPress based social network plugin, which is extremely easy to install and use. It’s free. As in beer. Installation: [rating=5] Price: [rating=5] Get it here: buddypress.org What it does Buddypress is a plugin for WordPress, the most popular (and free) blogging software and CMS. What does it do? It…
Disclaimer: StatusNET is now part of GNUSocial, the below review is obsolete. Read our GNUSocial review here. In a nutshell or The TL;DR StatusNet is a full-featured self-hosted Twitter clone. But in order for it to be really useful as a replacement, it would need to be able to communicate with other instances, which currently…
If you’ve been around the Internet for a while, chances are you’ve run across WordPress. It’s one of the oldest and by now probably the most widely used blogging software. Their open-source, self-hosted version is downloadable at WordPress.org, for a couple of years now they have been offering free hosted blogs at WordPress.com (which we…
