Technical partner: LodgOn

Since the very beginning of LodgON in 2000, the company focusses on Java software for enabling communities. Although social networking sites are often seen as a new phenomenon, the Internet has always been a place where people have been interacting with each other and with data. The recent buzz around sites as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn,... shows a growing interest in software that allows people to create, share, retrieve and rate content. Many of the concepts of these public social networks also apply for more private or niche networks. Many organisations and companies want to keep in touch with their members, users, customers,... . They want to offer similar functionality as e.g. Facebook, and they may want to leverage the networks that their users already have on these social networking sites. But, importantly, they want to own and manage the data and content themselves. Apart from the traditional social networking modules as friend management, blogging and forum modules, picture uploads and rating, LodgON has a lot of expertise in mobile and location based modules. The social network does not stop at the PC, but continues at the mobile phone, the in-car navigation system, the iDTV set top box,...

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