doubtful - Jason Carreira

I'm still wondering why no one ever talks about Elgg when it comes to creating a niche social network site. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Good call on the disparate social graphs. - Hao Chen

Agreed... building a social network right now built on WordPress for our local twitter community -> http://dmtweetup.org - andy brudtkuhl

@Stupid Blogger - Elgg is pretty cool - andy brudtkuhl

Elgg classic was very good, now elgg one is much better. And it was a software intended for social nets, not a converted =) - Arturo Servin from twhirl

Andy Peatling will be talking about BuddyPress (WP-based social network project) at WordCamp SF on Saturday... good timing. - Mark Jaquith from twhirl

It will be interesting to see if BuddyPress can compete in the enterprise social networking space. - hellonm

bolog and ne - adolfo foronda

Sarah, I didn't know about the Action Streams plugin, but I liked DavidRecordon website so much that I did my own c# script to generate something like that. http://www.alexsauceda.com - Alex Sauceda

Funny. I was searching Digg.com for this art... er post and leave a comment there. I typed in the beginning of the title "The Next Social Networks" and found one post in particular made end of last year (<a href="http://gigaom.com/2007..." target=_blank>click here</a>) titled: "The Next Social Network: WordPress". Personally, after having played with Del.icio.us, Diigo, Facebook and whatnot, I recently came to the conclusion that sharing with no return/feedback from anybody has little meaning so when comments are better valued than 'clicks', 'diggs', 'votes', 'shares' whatever digg-like website can think of it will really mean the beginning of the construction of a social network. Until now I haven't seen much taking that direction. Make people talk with each others instead of at each others. - lelapin from FriendFeed MT Plugin

For those of you mentioning Elgg, you may enjoy this older post where RWW interviewed the Elgg founders: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Sarah Perez