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Would you like to adopt a Dolphin? I bet you would?

Whether working on your own website, or discussing one for clients the conversation at some point will point quickly to social media applications, or community platforms. Most clients however won’t go down this road because of development costs, or complexities. Sole users, tinkerers like me that want more than templates that web based platforms provide are in a bind too. We can’t customize, not knowing how to mess with all the coding mess to do your own community sites unless we go the road of something like ning. All this leading me to wonder: when will someone create the Wordpress for Social Community websites?

Well it’s here. And apparently it’s not that new… But its hot. Adopt your Dolphin today, courtesy of Boonex.

…now “open source” is something of an overstatement in the fact that you’re going to have to pay for Dolphin Software. But the fees are low, and would seem worth it vs. other platform that are more close ended, leaving you unable to implement meaningful custom design, self host, hack and monetize on your own.

I also wont oversell Dolphin since I don’t know how easy it is to use, but from the online demo it looks intuitive wordpress style with an easy to navigate management user interface and content management system. Even if it ain’t the end-all one thing is for sure, Flickr, YouTube, Myspace and Facebook beware. You’re unique platforms are about to be commoditized real quick. And micro-social media sites won’t just continue to grow, they will soon explode. And if your ning.com, squidoo or wetpaint you may continue to capture a large amount of everyday folks of the like the web-based blogger platforms do (e.g. wordpress online, blogger), but your competitive set is going to get crowded and you’ll lose the small business folks developing web platforms, tech tinkerers like me and other b2b builders real quick-like.

Who knew that Dolphins could stir up so much trouble? ;)

More about BoonEX via this interesting mission video.

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