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As social sites grow in popularity, so does the desire for smaller niche-based networks that cater to smaller groups of people. Just look at the rise of social networks for chess players and wine.

What’s more, with the latest open source software, smaller sites can be built in a matter of days or weeks. Here are 10 open source software platforms on which to carve out your niche.

If there’s one site people love to emulate with their own niche versions, it’s DiggDigg . Fortunately, there are good platforms to do just that.

Pligg

It seems that every hour, a new Pligg-based site is born. Pligg is a PHP/MySQL system that allows visitors to submit websites and blogs for voting or ranking. While very similar to Digg, it does offer some additional features, such as trackback support, automatic title discovery, and RSS import functionality. It also has a small community that is actively working on new mods and templates. Some of the more interesting Pligg-based sites are PlugIM, Sk*rt, Sphinn and Simply Fired.

NewsCloud

NewsCloud is another content management system that has a story ranking feature. They have also developed a Facebook app for their service, which is open source as well and available for download. The default layout is slightly more newsy than Digg-like.

Drupal with Vote up/down module

Most know Drupal as one of the more popular open source content management systems available. Thanks to the user community, several modules have been developed that allow voting of submitted stories. Recruiting.com uses this setup.

Dolphin

Dolphin, from Boonex, is a popular free community-building application that is being used for a number of dating sites. Many modifications have been developed, however many of them are only available for a fee. There is also a cost associated with removing the company’s links from your site.

PHPizabi

PHPizabi is another social networking script that charges a fee to remove their branding. They are rapidly approaching 100,000 downloads of their software, and have a few impressive-looking demo sites listed on their website.

Elgg

Elgg was developed with the educational industry in mind, but can be customized for any use. Many universities throughout the world have adapted the social software to fit their needs.

Mugshot

Developed by Red Hat, Mugshot allows you to post what you are reading and listening too, and share it with you friends. Mugshot is a little different, as both the client and server code are open source and available for download.

AroundMe

AroundMe is an open source social networking app that supports OpenID. They are based in Sweden. We haven’t seen many sites running on the platform.

GetBoo

GetBoo allows you to save you favorite sites and share them with your friends. It also supports public and private group creation.

Scuttle

While Scuttle has not been updated in over a year, the code is still available on SourceForge. Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based social bookmark system.

作为社会的成长，在网站的人气，那么的渴望，规模较小的利基市场为基础的网络，照顾到小群体的人。只看崛起的社会关系网，为国际象棋选手和葡萄酒。

何况，与最新的开放原始码软体，规模较小的网站上可建在短短几天内或几周。这里有10个开放源码软件的平台上，瓜分了你的利基。

如果有一个网站人民热爱学习，与他们自己的利基版本，它的diggdigg 。所幸的是，有良好的平台，以做到这一点。

pligg

看来，每一个小时，一个新的pligg为基础的网站诞生。 pligg是一个PHP / MySQL的系统，让游客提交的网站和博客进行投票或排名。虽然非常相似， digg ，它提供了一些额外的功能，如跟踪支持，自动发现的标题，和RSS导入功能。它也有一个小社区，这是积极的工作新的多器官功能障碍综合征和模板。一些更有趣的pligg基于网站plugim ， SK队*的RT ， sphinn和简单发射。

newscloud

newscloud是另一个内容管理系统有一个故事，排名功能。他们还制定了Facebook的应用程序为他们服务，这是开放源代码，以及和可供下载。默认布局是略多newsy比digg一样的。

drupal与投票向上/向下模块

最知道drupal作为一个比较流行的开源内容管理系统。感谢用户社区，几个模块已制定允许的投票提交的故事。 recruiting.com使用此安装程序。

海豚

海豚，从boonex ，是一个受欢迎的免费社区建设的应用程序正被用于一些交友网站。许多变通已发达，但是他们中的许多只适用于收费。也有相关的成本与消除该公司的联系，从您的网站。

phpizabi

phpizabi是另一个社交网络脚本收取的费用，以消除他们的品牌。他们迅速接近100000下载他们的软件，并有一些令人印象深刻的前瞻性演示列出的网站在他们的网站上。

埃尔格

埃尔格开发与教育产业在介意，但可以自订的任何使用。许多大学在世界各地已经适应了社会的软件，以适应他们的需要。

mugshot

开发红帽， mugshot让您后什么你是阅读和听力太，并一起分享您的朋友。 mugshot是一个有点不同，因为两者在用户端与伺服器代码的开放源代码和可供下载。

aroundme

aroundme是一个开放源码的社会网络应用程序，支持openid 。他们是总部设在瑞典。我们并没有看到许多网站上运行的平台。

getboo

getboo可让您以节省您最喜爱的网站，并与您的朋友分享。它也支持公共和私人建立群组。

破坏

而破坏尚未更新，在超过一年，则该代码仍是可用的对SourceForge上。破坏是一个PHP / MySQL的基于社会书签系统