More formally, we call our product a social groupware – some also call it DIY social network, or white label social network. But technically speaking, we prefer the term social operating system to describe what we do here.

GROU.PS gives you a bunch of modules that you choose from and mash up very easily! You can enrich your site with blocks too; blocks allow you to copy/paste 3rd party widgets into your site.

Features:

General

* Unlimited categories and sub-categories
* Search engine friendly URLs
* Template engine for easy customization
* Multi-language (Members can select a language from their account settings)
* Captcha on various form fields to prevent spam (Can be enabled / disabled)
* RSS feeds
* Invite friends – Members can invite friends from MSN, Yahoo, GMail etc
* Link trading system (Ability to track traffic)

Member Profiles

* Profiles can be completely customized (Just like MySpace and IMVU)
o Each box can be dragged to a new position
o Each box can have unique colors for each element (Title, font, background etc)
o New boxes can be added with either custom content or an RSS feed
o Boxes can be deleted or minimised for later use
o Users can add their own css to their profile, and create their own unique look
* Simple profile editor which enables members to easily customize their profile without HTML / CSS knowledge
* Users are able to leave comments on other users profiles
* Each profile has ten sections: Profile Home, Media, Favorites, Playlists, Friends, Groups, Blogs, Picture Gallery, Comments, Subscribers

Edit Profile / Account Settings

* Members can set their global display name
* Ability to change profile title and description / reset profile views.
* Members can change their “Channel”. Channels are used to group members with similar interests.
* Members can upload a profile avatar from their computer, or choose one from their uploaded pictures or media
* Members can change various information regarding their interests and hobbies.
* Members can change their personal information such as name, country, birth date, email address etc.
* Profile can be set as public or private (Friends only)
* Profile / picture comments can be enabled / disabled
* Members can select a global site language
* Family filter on/off
* Members can set what they will receive email notifications for
* Ability to configure mobile phone uploading

Member Groups

* Each member is assigned to a member group
* The default member groups are Root Admin, Admin, Members, Guests, Banned
* Each member group has different permissions / settings which can be configured via the admin panel (Too many options to list)

Media Page

* Rate media (Ajax)
* Add to favorites, playlist or group (Ajax)
* Flag media as inappropiate (Ajax)
* Email to friend (Ajax)
* Add to social bookmarks (digg, del.icio.us etc) (Ajax)
* Save media to computer (Can be enabled / disabled for different user groups)
* Display / post comments (Ajax)
* Members can add videos to their profile (Ajax)
* Copy / paste embed code and link
* Related media / more media from user (Ajax)
* Each media file can have its own sponsor content or advertisement

Media

* Media can be browsed by category, searched or sorted by various options
* Media can be browsed in two views: detailed and basic
* Media tag cloud – shows most searched tags
* Media Plugs: Admins can add media plugs which look like regular media files, however link to another site (Great way to circulate traffic around a network)

My Media / My Favorites

* Members can manage their uploaded media files
* Members can manage their favorite media files
* Audio Swap: Members can change the audio of their uploaded videos

Subscriptions / Subscribers

* Members can subscribe to media from a certain tag, or another member
* Latest media subscriptions are displayed on the “members home” page

Blogs

* Members can create blogs
* Blogs can be set as either public, public (profile only), friends only or diary.
* Powerful WYSIWYG editor
* Users can browse blogs, search them, or sort them using a variety of options

Picture Galleries

* Members can upload pictures which are hidden from the main site
* Members can create multiple albums to organise their pictures.
* Albums can be set as public, friends only or private

Groups

* Members can create groups and set them to either public, private or protected
* Group owner can edit group settings such as validation of media uploads, forum postings and group icons
* Each group has a forum whereby topics can be created and group members can reply
* Ability to browse the members and media in a group
* Users can browse groups, search them, or sort them using a variety of options

Playlists

* Members can create playlists which act as a members own category.
* Playlist owner can add any media files to their playlist
* Playlist media can easily be arranged to new positions using drag and drop
* Playlist owner can modify playlist details or delete the playlist
* Users can browse playlists, search them, or sort them using a variety of options

Private Message System

* Members can compose messages to one another / their friends using the built in message system (WYSIWYG editor)
* Members receive messages for friend requests, media comments etc
* Admins can set the number of messages that each user group can store
* Progress bar to track the percentage of message space available

Friends

* Members can add each other to their “friends list”
* Friends can view each others media files which are set to “private”
* Friends can be searched, or sorted individually by the first letter of their username
* Ability to change top friends / set amount of top friends to display on profile
* Ability to block members from viewing your profile or interacting with you

Bulletins

* Members can post bulletins which are shown to the members on their “friends list”
* Admins can post bulletins which are shown to all members
* Latest bulletins are displayed on the “members home” page.

Media Upload

* Upload any type of media file or set restrictions on certain formats
* Real-time upload progress bar with detailed statistics (No extra software required)
* Automatic thumbnail generation for images and videos
* Mobile Phone Upload: Members can upload media from their mobile phone using MMS

Video Conversion

* Ability to convert uploaded videos to FLV format
* Background process video conversion (If enabled)
* Setting: Auto delete original video on/off
* Setting: Resize uploaded video on/off
* Setting: Set video conversion quality

Video Player

* Users can email the playing video to their friend
* Users are provided with a direct link to the video, or a code to embed the video
* Slow motion on/off
* Video smoothing allows user to set playback quality (Higher quality or faster viewing) on/off
* Video preferences – Brightness, Contrast, Saturation
* Admins can add advertisements which rotate and pop-up at random times during playback
* Fullscreen option without the video restarting
* Player guide which displays at the end of the video
* Watermark can be added to any position on the player

Video Commercials

* Commercials can be set to play before or after videos
* Supports jpg,gif,png,swf or flv
* Commercial views are tracked
* Commercials can be linked to any site

Slave Servers / Server Balancing

* Multiple servers can be added so media / videos are streamed from multiple servers
* Slave servers require no additional files. Simply setup an FTP account on the server and it is ready to store media
* Slave servers rotate randomly. You can have as many enabled as you wish at the one time.

BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.

Vidpart offers an impressive embedded video functionality!
Vidpart is designed to be able to do all that the leaders in its market can. An example of these features is the ‘embed video’ functionality, which allows used to embed the videos uploaded into any regular webpage, such as a forum, a blog or a website. This allows for easy access to the videos uploaded without having to visit a separate link!

VidPart allows your users to interact with each other!
All your users can communicate with one another not only via their videos but also via a messaging feature. Users can also rate the videos uploaded by other users and comment on them, as well as rate other user’s profiles. Ensure your online video community becomes a community in the truest sense of the word!

Vidpart is highly customizable!
Key features in Vidpart can be customized easily to meet your requirements. You are in complete control of all the elements of your video community, including one of the most important ones for a user: the interface. Using fully customizable templates can help you have 100% control over what your video community looks like.

Activity Feed
Our activity feed keeps your members up-to-date with what their friends or the community has recently been up to. Designed to work similar to Facebook’s Live Feed.

User Group Manager
When using a feature on the site it is usually tied into a user group, which in return gives you the control with what each user group can do; from things like uploading an image or writing a blog to viewing a secret group direct from the Admin Control Panel.

Ad Manager
You can monetize your social network with our advanced ad campaigns that gives you full control to who can view each specific ad based on a users location, gender and even their age group.

Content Management System
Our product is a CMS (Content Management System) at its core allowing our product to take on many shapes and forms, which we use to release our flagship social networking product phpFox.

SEO Friendly URLs
When viewing an item like a blog or photo it requires a unique identifier and we use SEO (Search Engine Optimizations) practices to keep content on top of search engine results giving your community a lot more hits.

Profile Drag & Drop
A members profile is their personal page on your social network, which has all the information they want to share with the community as well as all the content they are sharing on your social network.

Manage your graphics, comments, layouts, and generators efficiently, and SEO friendly with V1.6!

General Requirements

1. PHP 5 (with CURL)
2. MYSQL 5
3. Linux Server
4. IonCube Loaders

The following is required if you plan to take advantage of the photobucket graphics import feature. Note: Graphics remain on photobucket but the locations, categories, and names get inserted into the database by the script, this is an automated process that saves you a large amount of time.
PhotoBucket Graphic Import Requirements

1. Server outbound connections
2. PhotoBucket Pro account

General Features:
1. Upgrades and Support Forum Access
2. Myspace V2 layouts now supported
3. Professional Installation
4. Import photobucket graphics
5. Captcha Security
6. Rating System
7. User favorites
8. Search (content, tags, or user submitted)
9. Partner Sites (signup, stats, and tracking)
10. Sitewide Ads
11. Template System
12. SEO Friendly URLs
13. Layout previews.
Users Features:
1. User Registration
2. User Content Submission
3. User Profiles
4. Rate Content
5. Add Comments
6. Manage Favorites
Admin CPanel Features:
1. Template listing, and editor
2. Visual Content Management
3. Maintenance Mode
4. Myspace to Friendter/Hi5 layout conversion “tool”
5. Content statistics
6. Popular Search Terms
7. Google Sitemap Builder
8. Mysql Tables Optimizer
9. Mysql Backup Tool
10. Import Content Tool (works with MSRS layouts too)
11. Prune Users Tool
12. Custom Page Editor
13. Ad Management System
14. Manage Link Exchanges
15. Allow or disallow user comments, and registration

100% Control & Content Ownership
Our philosophy is to give our customers 100% control of their network, including their visual layout, functionality, and – most importantly – their content. Many other social network providers and community-building tools retain your users’ data on their servers, preventing you from migrating to another service or leveraging your own community’s content for advertising. Conversely, SocialEngine is hosted on your own server where you have complete control over every aspect of your community.

100% Customizable & Brandable
We want your new social network to offer something unique. Out of the box, SocialEngine gives you a simple, unbranded network that you can customize in absolutely any way. This lets you get right to deplying your unique theme, social structure, or new social concept using our source code as a foundation. Our platform is truly “white label”, meaning we do not display any branding, company logos, or “powered by” text whatsoever. We will never charge you to add your own logo and branding to your community, and sincerely encourage you to do so!

100% Unencrypted Source Code
We actively encourage our users to customize their social networks in any way. We provide the complete source code for SocialEngine making it simple to add or integrate any features. We’ve gone to great lengths to make SocialEngine incredibly easy for you to work with and customize. The source code is thoroughly commented to help you understand every stage of the PHP code. We also provide fully commented HTML templates for every single page of your social network, including global header/footer templates and an organized CSS stylesheet.

Instant Download, Easy Setup
When you have a novel idea for a new social network or online community, we know that you want to get started right away. This is why we provide you with a download link immediately after your purchase. Our system is designed to get your social network up and running as quickly as possible; after our easy installation, your new social network site is ready to go! You can immediately begin signing up users or purchase additional third-party mods and templates.

Active Development in Los Angeles, CA
Our Pasadena-based team of experienced developers and designers are constantly growing and improving SocialEngine. We regularly release software updates including both bug fixes, feature enhancements, and new plugins for the platform. We also have a growing community of third-party developers that are building and selling their own modifications for SocialEngine.