Wall.fm is an online service for people to build and host social networks, which is powered by Oxwall

Oxwall

Oxwall is free and open source community software distributed under the Common Public Attribution License. It is written in PHP and is used as a platform for social networking and community sites....

 software. Wall.fm allows users over 18 years old to register a free account and create custom social networking websites. The site creation process does not involve any coding, and consists of only two steps.
The distinctive Wall.fm features are user roles (member access permissions), customizable themes, activity newsfeed, website/profile/content privacy, monetization pack. One of its main competitive advantages is that the service is built on an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

platform, which means a certain degree of freedom for site owners.
Wall.fm offers three plans: Free, Pro and Ultimate. Paid plans offer extended features range, possibility to use custom domain, and vendor's branding removal.

History

Wall.fm was launched in February 2010, and back then was known as WackWall. The second version of WackWall, which was later renamed to Wall.fm, was powered by OpenWack software that eventually evolved into Oxwall. Wall.fm exited beta in October 2010, and started introducing paid plans and changes to free accounts, such as displaying the vendor's ads across the free plan sites, and including a site monetization pack into Ultimate plan features. On May 15, 2011 Wall.fm updated their Terms of Use limiting the use of the service to persons over 18 years old, and introducing regulations for sites intended for use by children under 13 years old. As of May 2011, over 3000 sites are built with Wall.fm service each month.

Features

Wall.fm provides all the basic functionality required to build a social website: user roles, photo/video sharing, chat, blogs, forum, groups, events, activity stream. It supports site/profile/content privacy, and allows for a certain degree of site pages customization by users and administrator, as well as general design alteration via CSS styles. Wall.fm also has site monetization features available with Ultimate plan: user credits, membership levels, and payment providers. Because features are developed as plugin extensions, they can be easily enabled/disabled via the admin dashboard.

Wall.fm for education

Granular control over user roles and permissions along with privacy settings and a simplified network creation process makes Wall.fm attractive for online educators. The changes in Wall.fm Terms of Use are also intended to make the service more education-friendly.

Support and community

Wall.fm staff provide free support via email and public discussion boards. Wall.fm community members can find answers to frequently asked questions, report bugs and problems, and post feature suggestions.

External links

• Official Website
• Official Blog
• Oxwall Software