WebCrossing Neighbors:

You decide what features are available for your members, and you control the server operation and customization through easy-to-access control panels and switches. Your Neighbors site can be used out-of-the-box in minutes, or can be infinitely customized by modifying stylesheets. It is even possible to modify the underlying scripts and templates that control WebCrossing Neighbors operations to further customize and extend WebCrossing Neighbors features.

Full access permissions provide a secure gateway to group and space content for group members, space friends or whatever level of access you require. Members have full control over who sees their content, including their profile information.

Real-time demographic and usage charts help you track your membership composition and relationship development by monitoring the growth of friends links, group membership, hits and posts throughout your site over time.

You can also provide a premium membership to selected users, giving them extra options, such as the ability to create multiple photo albums, store more files and create premium communities with additional features.

• Friends networking provides mutual links and easy-to-find new activity in friends' spaces.
• Degrees of friendship support (friends of friends, third degree friends)
• Custom profiles gather the information you want (required and optional) during signup and automatically propagates the content to user profiles, tag-based member searches and advanced members searches. Users decide which profile fields are visible to whom (friends, everybody or nobody).
• Quick member browse with links to spaces, photo albums and friendship status
• Groups (public, private, and hidden) with online discussion areas and email subscriptions
• Projects (public, private, and hidden) are like Groups but are intended for teams working on specific tasks. In addition to groups features there are unlimited sub-folder hierarchies and special group features, including task managers, event calendars, Wiki Web, surveys and discussions.
• Friend and group galleries (personal pictures and custom user-selectable avatars)
• Hot news and announcements appear whenever members access their spaces, keeping them up to date
• Friends and group activity shows up in a person's space, letting them know about new content in subscribed areas
• Search spaces, members, and groups
• Super Invite is a one-stop feature that makes it easy for members to invite people to join the site, become friends, and participate in groups
• Sitewide communities such as Online Support, for system-related discussions
• Instant Messaging and Chat with online presence detection and avatars
• Personal Spaces with member-settable access permissions
• Personal Files let members share data and files with friends, other site members, or store private data
• Personal Journals (blogs)
• Personal Photo Albums allow members to upload photos and optionally comment on each others' images
• Personal Discussion Areas A member's own personal forum space!
• WebMail and also full email (SMTP, POP3) services
• Footprints (list of recent visitors) for Groups and Spaces
• Testimonials from friends
• Reviews publishing
• Reports can be generated from site data to track growth

WebCrossing Neighbors is a high performance private-labeled social networking system, permitting an unlimited number of simultaneous users restricted only by platform capabilities and bandwidth. The high-performance server application is implemented in the C programming language, eliminating the overhead of interpreted languages such as PHP. Additional performance is achieved by extensive use of sophisticated data caching techniques to eliminate slow disk accesses whenever possible. A single WebCrossing Neighbors instance is capable of serving hundreds of thousands of pageviews per day on high-performance hardware.

For heavy load requirements, WebCrossing Neighbors' sophisticated clustering protocol makes it simple to group redundant servers for a highly scalable and robust environment. Scalability features include distributed and mirrored server features. Unlike some mirrored systems, which may require several minutes to distribute new postings throughout the entire mirrored network, a WebCrossing Neighbors cluster achieves complete network distribution in milliseconds

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