Sazbean

Small World Labs offers a PHP hosted social network application with custom look & feel and full control over the functionality. Clients include Oracle, American Cancer Society, CMP, Save the Children, Special Olympics (client list). There are three different price points with different functionality and options. Available functions include: profiles, audio, video, polling, tagging, forum, jobs, classifieds, wikis, surveys, audio/video broadcast, podcasts, ratings, reviews and more (full feature list).

This is true social networking software, not just community features with social network built in, where your profile is tied to all the content you view, rate, comment on and share. There is an in depth member search function to allow members to connect with others with similar interests. Content within the social network can be displayed on your website or you can take content from your website and display it within the network. The network can integrate with external ad servers – different levels of the software allow different amount of advertising placements and you can target ads to particular groups, features, etc. Small Labs uses Google Analytics for statistics but can also integrate with any tag-based analytics program.

Features of interest:

• Email is sent internally within the community so visitors do not need to reveal their contact information unless they want to.
• Events can be created for online or offline events with both public and personal calendars.
• Groups also have their own calendar and can be public, open, closed or hidden. These are communities within a community and allow smaller niches to form within your network. Groups can have their own main page, photos, blogs, forum, members, files, etc.
• Security options can be set throughout the community. There is automatic and customizable filtering for profanity and social network members can report objectionable materials. To help with moderation, members can be appointed to police certain portions of the network with customizable amount of control.
• Photos, Audio and Video can be uploaded which can be rated and commented upon by members. This content can be displayed throughout the community or your website as Most Recent, Most Rated, Most Viewed, Top Rated, Most Commented to drive more traffic to this portion of the network. Any video that is uploaded is transcoded and turned into flash when it is uploaded to decrease the amount of bandwidth used.

Pricing depends for annual fees include license, hosting and development: Platform starts at $20k, Professional at $40k, and Enterprise at $60k with included monthly bandwidth levels of 1 million, 2 million and 3 million page views respectively. The networks can have as many members you want and platforms and modules can be switched at any time. To pay for all this, any ad, ecommerce, access revenue is completely yours.

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