Comparison list of Social Networking Providers

	Hosted		Runs on Joomla!
	Ning	Kickapps	Community Builder	JomSocial
Monthly subscription	Yes	Yes	No	No
Full ownership of your community user information	No	No	Yes	Yes
Technical Support	with additional fee	Yes	No	Yes
Comments & Walls	Yes	Yes	No*	Yes
Control over external advertisement	Yes	No*	Yes	Yes
Custom Profile Fields	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Groups	Yes	Yes	No*	Yes
Invitation Engine	Yes	Yes	No*	Yes
Message Boards	No	Yes	No	Yes
Moderation, Privacy & Private Messaging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Photo Sharing	Yes	Yes	No*	Yes
Points/Karma/Levels	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
RSS Feeds	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Social Bookmarking in Community	Yes	No	No	Yes
Template/Skin/Theme Customization	Yes	Yes	No*	Yes
Twitter Feeds & Activity Stream Display	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Video Sharing & Photo Tagging	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Chat	No	Yes	No*	No*
Events	Yes	No	No*	No*

	* Available via third party plugin & upgrade.