ONEsite

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ONEsite, a subsidiary of the hosting company Catalog.com, provides a hybrid social networking/website hosting solution. They allow you to mask your social networks URL so that it meshes with an existing website, but they wont offer you their free social networking solution unless you buy a domain with them. In the limited time of this study, we werent able to set up a network of our own.

Browsing the showcased networks, however, gives one the sense that ONEsites platform is not half bad. Some of the networks (such as the CEOs Crull Zone) follow a standard, ONEsite template with simple customizations while others (such as iVillage connect) are more fully integrated into existing websites. However, it is unclear whether the more fully customized networks are designed by the ONEsite team under the expensive, $2,500-per-month Enterprise package or created by affiliates themselves with ready-made tools. I suspect that the former is the case.

Regardless of the platforms quality, ONEsites offerings are steeply priced and their user limits are a bit draconian. The free offering only permits 100 users on your network, the $30-per-month offering permits 1,000, and the $200-per-month offering permits 10,000. I suppose no one is really intending to build the next MySpace on this platform, but from a cost point of view, the difference between 100 and 10,000 users for ONEsite is probably near nothing.

View a chart that we compiled in Summer 2007 that compares this companys social networking product to others.