Posted on July 7, 2010 by by valerirojas

Have you ever wanted to have full control over your online information? and wished that some of the popular social networks could allow you to do that?. Well, according to the team from wpmu.org you will finally be able to do that with Social River.

“Social River is an open source project, written in PHP and Javascript, and built on top of WordPress. This makes it very approachable for other developers to be able to customize it any way they want. Essentially, you host and control your own stream of information and then merge that with your friends’ streams to make your own unique social river.”

How it Works?

Socialriver lets your run your own “stream” site and you can connect your stream to your friends’ streams to form a larger social river.
You have total control over your privacy. All of your content – your personal details, the posts you make, your pictures, etc. – are stored on your own private stream site. No one can access your content without your direct permission.

Some of the Features:

• Your stream, which is similar to Facebook’s wall and Twitter’s primary user pages. You can write whatever you want, as much as you want, and even include pictures, videos, audio files, and other content. And, embedding multimedia content and links to other pages on the Internet is a snap.
• The river, which is where all of your friends’ posts appear, as well as yours. Think of the river as being similar to Facebook’s “news” section, except with real privacy.
• Private messaging, which is similar to email except that it’s all contained within your SocialRiver site.
• Your profile, of course, which includes as much personal information as you want to reveal. You can add your name, a screen name or alias, brief biography, birthday, city and state, phone number, political affiliations, religious affiliations, and much more.
• Unlimited photos, videos, audio files, and other types of files, completely organized into albums or folders with optional captions.
• Privacy controls that let you restrict who can see what you put into SocialRiver. You can set each aspect of your personal information and content to be visible to only you, your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.
• And more features to come, including live chat!

For more information about Social River read their FAQ page.

Thanks to Sarah Gooding from wpmu.org for sharing the good news first.

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