Mu is a JavaScript library for enabling Facebook Connect on any website with ease.

It makes accessing the following possible:

• Identity: the user's name, photo and more
• Social Graph: the user's friends and connections
• Distribution: the Stream, and the ability to communicate
• Integration: publishers, canvas pages, profile boxes & tabs

Mu is lightweight can be used with other libraries with no conflicts.

There is also a console provided for experimenting the Mu APIs.

Benjamin Reid is sharing a set of 81 social bookmarking icons named Social Media Bookmark Icon + where it is possible to find almost every social network.

The "+" in the name refers to the continuous additions being made to the set upon user requests.

They come in 3 different sizes:

• 16*16px
• 32*32px
• 122*42px (large buttons)

And, all icons are in PNG format.

Pubwich is an open-source PHP application that enables anyone to display the data from multiple websites/services in a single HTML page.

It is a perfect "instant website" for anyone who is active in social networks.

Besides the ability to show content of any website via RSS/Atom feeds, it supports popular web services like:

• Delicious
• Facebook
• Flickr
• last.fm
• ReaderNaut
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• Youtube

Although the default theme already offers a nice presentation, it can be easily themed (uses Savant template engine) for a unique look & feel.

There are lots of social networks from small to huge ones like Facebook or MySpace.

Although trying to create the next Facebook may not be a good idea, you may want to create a niche network or empower & add new features to the network you already have.

Here are 6 open source social networking applications which are developed continiously, well-documented & offer impressive functions.

Elgg

Elgg is a mature social networking framework which offers:

• advanced user management and administration
• social networking
• cross-site tagging
• powerful access control lists
• internationalisation support
• multiple view support (eg cell phones, iPhone)
• an advanced templating engine
• a widget framework and more.

Its plugin based system enables adding new features easily from a plugins database or creating your own.

Elgg is built with PHP / MySQL & comes with a JSON API.

PHPizabi

PHPizabi is a feature-rich open source social networking engine for creating & managing basic-to-advanced communities.

It is built with PHP / MySQL & besides every feature that can be thought for a social networking site, it offers:

• a multilingual interface
• mass mailing to users
• creating blogs
• forum integration & more

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Last week, a post at WRD had announced the giveaway of 2 CometChat licenses to WebResourcesDepot readers. Winners are selected. But before that, to remind:

What is CometChat?

CometChat is a Facebook-like chat application which is built with PHP & MySQL.

It can be integrated into any website with ease & optionally, at has a ready-to-go version for vBulletin-based forums.

Users can view become friends, see the status of their friends & can chat without leaving the webpage they are viewing.

The application is multilingual, can be translated to any language & besides the standard icons, new ones can be placed to for a better integration with any website.

Here are the winners:

• Ahmad Alfy (comment #61129)
• @marius_stuparu (via Twitter)

Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for joining.

CometChat, a Facebook-style chat script -which enables website users to chat with each other easily- is giving away 2 licenses ($49/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on "how to join" can be found at the end of the post.

What is CometChat?

It is a PHP / MySQL script for creating a chat environment that can be used while visitors are browsing any page of the website.

Users can select their statuses (like busy, available, invisible or a custom one), "get friends" with each other & see if their friends are online or not.

The interface automatically converts related entries into smileys or well-formatted links & it can notify users with audio messages when a message arrives.

CometChat is multilingual, can be translated to any language & besides the standard icons, new ones can be placed to for a better integration with any website.

The script comes in 2 versions:

• standalone: for  integrating it with your existing social networking, dating or community site
• vBulletin edition: instant integration with this forum software

How To Win The Free Licenses?

You have 2 options to join the giveaway where you can do both of them to increase the chance of winning:

• comment to this post with at least "I want the license" text besides any other comment
• ReTweet this message at Twitter: Facebook-Style Chat Application: CometChat (http://www.cometchat.com/) (2 Licenses Giveaway): http://tr.im/r2sU (via @umutm) (click the link to ReTweet easily).

Winners will be selected randomly on 13th July 2009 (1 week later & they can choose whether they want to get the standalone or the vBulletin edition.

Good luck to all.

Flash Bookmarks is a free Flash component for integrating social bookmarking links to any website easily.

It supports the most popular sites like Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Facebook, Google and Reddit.

The look & feel of the social bookmarking menu created with the component is totally customizable. It is possible to change:

• the icons to be displayed
• the size of the icons
• the aspect of the hint text for the icons
• details regarding the bookmarked data.

Flash Bookmarks can be both added by drag’n drops from the component panel of Flash or by code (AS3).

It is possible to create stylish textboxes with auto-complete feature, just like Facebook has, using plugins for jQuery & MooTools.

For jQuery:

Autobox is a jQuery plugin that makes creating textboxes with auto-complete support easier.

Values expected can be mentioned staticly or called dynamically via Ajax requests. Documentation for the plugin can be found here.

For MooTools:

TextboxList, a MooTools plugin, for creating auto-complete enabled Facebook-like inputs has a new version (see WRD post for the old version).

It can be feeded with data from any data-source easily, makes a binary search for a better performance & offers various options for maximum flexibility.

Allowing users to invite their contacts from other networks or e-mail providers is a popular method used in social networks & web applications.

OpenInviter is an open source PHP class, written in PHP5, for importing contacts from most of the well-known e-mail providers & social networks.

Such an invite feature is great, specially when presented as optional, to gain new users/visitors to any service.

There are already ready to use integrations for:

• Wordpress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• phpBB & more.

OpenInviter supports:

• Gmail
• Windows Live
• Yahoo
• Mail.com
• Facebook
• Friendster
• hi5
• Linkedin
• Twitter
• Myspace & more..

FotoViewr is a web-based image gallery application which enables you to create 3D image galleries for your Flickr account.

You can choose to present your images from 6 different 3D gallery types.

Galleries can be created instantly by simply providing your Fickr username (no password required) and the applications lets you select which gallery to display.

After the Fickr gallery selection, FotoViewr provides you the embed code you need to insert into your webpage to display the gallery & that’s it.

Tip:

FotoViewr also has a Facebook application to use with Facebook galleries.