eWeek: Social Networks Close at Hand
Excerpt
eWeek offers a rundown of platforms for building social network applications, reminding developers that "If your company has made any investment in Web 2.0 or enterprise portal systems, there's a very good chance that these same systems can be used to create a rich and robust social networking platform that is also enterprise-friendly."
About Plone specifically, eWeek says:
While Plone is often referred to as a content management system, this description doesn't really do it justice. Plone is easily one of the most flexible and extensible of any Web platform available today, and has been used for everything from enterprise portal systems to project management to Web 2.0 deployments.
Every feature needed to run a social networking site is available within Plone, from personal pages to discussion groups to wikis to tagging to deep user collaboration. Built on top of the Zope application server platform, Plone can be customized to meet a wide variety of needs.
While it is extremely extensible, this does come at a bit of a price and Plone definitely has a higher learning curve than many of the other potential social networking platforms, especially for administrators. Also, Plone is based on the Python language, which while very powerful and capable is less well known than more common web development and scripting language.
- Country
- United States
- Published
- Jan 17, 2008