Somewhere in my travels I saw a reference to an open source software package called Dolphin7. This is a CMS based community building software package. It was designed as a platform for dating sites, but has features, according to the website, that rival the web 2.0 social networking sites. A package like this starts me thinking about possibilities. There were three areas that immediately came to mind.

I have downloaded the software and will begin to investigate those possibilities in the near future. I have been interested in hosting an article site so I will see if the software can be adapted to that end. Along with that goes my live sound wiki site. I tried some wiki software but the security (maybe my settings) left something to be desired. I checked it one day to find over 3000 spam comments on the home page alone. The other thought that I had is a shopping community site.

This may also prove to be a solution for my music site. I had found a file upload software and installed it on the site. This software seems to draw a lot of attention from a bad element via the search engines. When someone tried to upload a .php file last week I took the upload software offline. (A php file could probably be used to take control of my server space.)

Expect a further post on this software package when I have had opportunity to check it out. Being open source the code is available to modify as desired. This may lead to some new knowledge and be a bunch of fun.

Check out the software package and tell me your thoughts in a comment. If the software spawns ideas that you think would work but have no interest in pursuing let me know!