If you wanted to build you own social network or a dating site, it doesn’t get easier than this. Dolphin, a free opensource, scalable and customizable software is what you need to build you own dating site or a social networking site.

Since it’s under open source, you get the complete source code and which you can modify to suit your need. The list of features runs really long to be covered in this post.

Some of it’s features worth being mentioned are :

1> Live video chat with full screen video mode, ^[1]

2> Share music and video files

3> Private rooms chats, one to one chat,

4> Rich Text Formatting and Animated Emoticons

5> Music Player,

6> Whiteboard,

7> Shoutbox,

8> Presence,

9> Desktop App and lot more features..

You can see the full feature list here : http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/features/ ^[2]

Dolphin is backed by a strong community in case you need support.

There’s only one catch with Dolphin, though the software is under open source, you are supposed to leave the link intact in the footer. You can get rid of it paying a license fee.

[ View Live Demo ^[3] ]

[ Download Dolphin ^[4] ]