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url siteto
Plans http://www.ning.com http://www.kickapps.com/ http://www.joomlapolis.com/
Import/Export
Technical NING
Support
MULTILANGUAGE Yes ? No
Ads on
Monthly Site Yes Yes + fee Yes
Subscription Yes Yes No
Comments
Custom & Walls
Profile Yes Yes No*
Fields
Several.
Moderation, Groups in
Privacy Yes No Yes
thePrivate
& same network Yes Yes No*
Messaging Yes Yes Yes
Photo Sharing Yes Yes No*
RSS Feeds
Social Bookmarking Yes Yes No
in Community
Theme
Twitter Feeds & Yes No No
Customization
Activity Stream Yes Yes No*
Display Yes Yes No
Events Yes No No*
Invitation Engine Yes Yes No*
Message
Video Boards
Sharing & Yes Yes No
Photo Tagging Yes Yes No
Chat Yes Yes No*
Polls Yes
Facebook Connect Yes
Music Player Yes
Mobile Friendly Yes
Status Updates
Multilangage Yes
Interface
FrontEnd Language Yes
Switch Yes
Flickrtext
Full Int.email Yes
notice NO
Custom javascript Page & TextBox
Full ownership
Points/Karma/Level No No Yes
s No Yes Yes
Self-hosting
Paid membership No
option
Yahoo Groups No
Integration No
PHPBB Migration No
Google Gadget No
* A tool to translate is available but by default only English is available. If one wants its own language o
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over 10GB
which is not cheap transfer in a month No
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Likely Yes
yes no, only english
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Yes, but free plan yes
available Yes, for upgrades
yes yes
No Yes
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At bottom of every page.
Not very convenient.
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No Yes via RPX Now
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No Yes, Data Export
yes On Roadmap
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upgrade
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YES no yes
one banner ad above your
YES no banner
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Free & Premium free
YES yes Yes
Yes no Yes to make
No but abilty
On roadmap no community webrings
YES yes
Yes Yes
YES yes on blogs and gallery
YES No
YES Yes
On roadmap No
not disc yet Calender for events
YES yes
Yes Yes
Yes yes
YES Yes
not disc yet Yes via apps
Yes No Yes
Not yet
yes No
YES yes translate
yes via google
YES no app
Not yet no
Not yet
YES yes
YES no
YES Kinda
On roadmap No
YES-Openwack No No
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On roadmap yes via app

Not free, but for $49 a

year starter pack premium
yes you can
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Unable to handle more than
323 members,Yes the system Only isolated groups,
might have
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yes, excellent yes yes yes forboonex
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only if using
you can do adsense as desired free version
Yes, but can be free also yes no
coming soon yes yes
yes yes yes yes
no no yes yes
yes
you get your own image somewhat yes yes
storage yes yes
yes yes yes
yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes no
Calendar yes yes yes
yes yes yes
yes yes yes
yes on their new profiles yes yes
yes yes Yes, Can be enabled yes
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Yes No - v 1.8? yes
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projects/ Couldn't get it to work
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social network
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possible

yes if you have pay to play yes - No ads: 29.97/y

free and pay Yearly fees
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Yes

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Yes Comments yes
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No

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