AROUNDMe is a suite of three social tools and as such is a social toolkit from which you can build your Internet identity, create networks and contribute to collaborative environments.

AROUNDMe Personal identity is the perfect solution for anyone wishing to create their own OpenID-based identity on the Web.

OpenID allows you to connect to many web sites without needing to fill in registration forms or remember multiple user name and password combinations. AROUNDMe Personal identity allows you to create your own OpenID account. Your account acts as a consumer meaning that people can connect to you thus forming a decentralised social network.

You get your own multiple page website (like Myspace) with plugins such as a blog and a guestbook. It is fully customisable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

AROUNDMe identity server is the perfect solution for anyone wishing to create OpenID-based identities and offer websites for multiple people on the Web.

If you are looking to extend your brand or build a business model around people having their own web site (think "MySpace") then AROUNDMe identity is the solution for you.

OpenID allows you to connect to many web sites without needing to fill in registration forms or remember multiple user name and password combinations. AROUNDMe identity server allows you to provider OpenID accounts for your family, community or work place. Each OpenID account acts as a consumer meaning that people can connect to them thus forming a decentralised social network.

Each account holder gets their own multiple page website (like Myspace) with plugins such as a blog and a guestbook. It is fully customisable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.

AROUNDMe collaboration server is the perfect solution for anyone wishing to create collaborative social spaces on the Web.

If you want to extend your brand or build a business model around people forming groups on the web (think "Google groups", "Yahoo groups" or "Ning") then AROUNDMe collaboration server is the solution for you.

Using AROUNDMe collaboration server you can create multiple collaborative group, webspace, community or social networking websites. Each group can create a multiple page collaborative web site. They get social tools such as a guestbook (a wall), a group blog, a forum and a wiki which they can drop into web pages. Each group is fully customisable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. Groups can be private or public.

People can connect to a group to contribute using OpenID. They get tracking tools such as forum digest and blog RSS feeds.

Download it, open it and follow the instructions in the "readme.txt" file.

• Personal identity version 1.3: tarball / zip
• Identity server version 1.2: tarball / zip
• Collaboration server version 1.6.2: tarball / zip

AROUNDMe requires a web server running either Apache 1.3/2.x or IIS5/IIS6 with PHP5.x installed including Curl, BCMath and GD library with MySQL 4.1 or MySQL 5.0 database.

AROUNDMe identity server and AROUNDMe collaboration server use a domain name / sub domain as your identity. You need to own or have access to a domain name to install this product.