CrowdVine Reviews
Here are a couple of nice reviews of CrowdVine, including two by TechCrunch. Most people think the service is simple and easy to use. That’s great. A lot of competitors are tackling this space by creating social networks with loads of features. I want to do something simple that’s easy to combine with other services. Chris Messina called that “Small pieces loosely joined,” after combining CrowdVine with Pibb and PBWiki for BarCampBlock.
Roll Your Own Social Network with CrowdVine
9 Ways to Build Your Social Network
Setting your own network is dead simple. You just need to pick a name, pick some profile questions, and then send out invites with a personalized message. You network is hosted at name.crowdvine.com Profiles consist of a photo, location, personal link, description, blog posts, and the questions the creator of the network chooses. Members can also incorporate RSS feeds from another blog, photo stream, or social bookmarking site.
CrowdVine.com — Create Your Own Social Network
There are many reasons to create a network and with CrowdVine.com creating a network is easy. The homepage takes you through three easy steps. First design your network, basically choose your color, there isn’t a huge choice with designing your network at the moment. Then choose your profile questions, this is where you make your network unique, deciding what questions will be in your profile.
Facebook? Why Not CREATE YOUR OWN Social Network?!
This service is pretty straight forward to set up [and] is much less complicated and cleaner [than other sites].
There are no annoying Google Ads placed on the interface, and the simple way people can set up and place their information in their profiles will be appealing to even the most non-tech savvy group out there.
