"Elgg Spaces allows you to create social networks for your organisation. You decide if the network is private or public. Elgg spaces are fully hosted and managed by our expert staff. We support and maintain your site while, leaving you to use it just like browsing the Web!" The service is free until your site has over 50 members but there will be ads placed on your pages.

Billed as the "fast and free way to create custom Social Websites!" Ning is innovative and and good-looking service. It's now split into 3 sections, you can create a video site (e.g. YouTube), an image site (e.g. Flickr) or a groups site (e.g. MySpace). You can use their 'clone' feature to make use of any of the apps already being used including many user-contributed systems. The service is not completely free however, and if you want to map your domain to your Ning account or start to create revenue through advertising you need to pay for "premium features". If your not looking for revenue right now though, this takes the ease of publishing to a next level.