OPEN-SOURCE CLONE SCRIPTS OF POPULAR WEBSITES

Twitter Clone Scripts

PeoplePodsis a social software toolkit aimed at building applications where people meet, talk, share, read, work and explore. Based on the foundation of Twitter-like features, registered members can create their own profile, follow others and join public or private groups. PeoplePods has overtime matured in a really stable platform and now powers a couple of great communities, with NeighborGoods.net being my favorite.

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Twitter Clone Scripts

Twitter Script is a free PHP application that allows you to run your own microblogging web site just like Twitter and Jaiku. It has multi-language support, comes with a template system that is easy to customize and makes great use of AJAX to provide a responsive experience.

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Digg Clone Scripts

Pligg was the first Digg website clone released a couple of years ago and is still actively maintained by a group of enthusiast and developers. Users can submit and vote on news article and top voted articles make it to the top of the homepage of your Pligg site. It has support for RSS subscription, groups, private messaging, commenting, etc. Pligg is powered by the Smarty template system, which makes it easier for skinning.

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YouTube Clone Scripts

PHPmotionis a free video sharing application that mimics YouTube to some extend. Your members can upload videos, and add description/tags. Videos can, in turn, be embedded on 3rd-party web sites. PHPmotion will automatically convert your movies into FLV – it can handle .mpg. .avi, .divx and other video formats. Other than videos, PHPmotion can be used as an image or audio sharing platform.

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YouTube Clone Scripts

ClipBucket is an open source multimedia management script provided free to the community. This script comes with all the bells & whistles required to start your own video sharing web site like YouTube, DailyMotion or MetaCafe. The script is constantly updated to provide the most versatile, reliable and scalable media distribution platform with the latest social networking features.

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Facebook Clone Scripts

BuddyPressis a collection of multiple WordPress plugins and themes that transform an installation of WordPress into a social networking platform. It has all features you’d expect to let your members socially interact. Each registered member gets a personal blog and an extended profile page with his list of friends and groups. Members can send private messages each other or leave short messages on each other’s wire.

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Facebook Clone Scripts

Oxwall is a flexible and easy to use PHP/mySQL community software platform. It comes with some great features like photo and video sharing, blogs, forums, wiki, groups, events, privacy control, etc. Oxwall also has some great plugins and themes to allow you to further customize your social site.

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Groupon Clone Script

NDOT Dealsis unfortunately the only free open source Groupon clone application that I could locate. It allows you to start your own group buying web site. Some of the features includes mobile version of the site, affiliates integration, payment gateway integration, free themes and social media integration. Please take note that the free version is very limited in terms of features.

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Google Calendar Clone Script

wdCalendar is a JQuery-based Google Calendar clone. The interface makes great use of AJAX to provide a responsive interface with drag-and-drop functionalities. The calendar can be set to daily/weekly/monthly view.

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