Comparison: GroupALoop vs Yahoo Groups and Google Groups
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Build and instant, automatic social network
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Everyone gets a profile page, with links to other members of the same groups, helping you find others and others find you |
Widgets to show your messages, groups & friends on other sites
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You'll get some code to copy and paste into any webpage to give others a real-time display of your latest messages, groups and group friends |
'Lurk' in groups without actually joning them
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Lurking in groups means you keep the group in your group list, but do not appear as a member, or get email updates |
Create unlimited subgroups within other groups
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Subgroups let you benefit from the membership and traffic of an existing group, without having to start all over again |
Add keyword tags to group descriptions
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Using tags to describe your group adds it to the 'tag cloud' and helps others find and join your group |
Stripped-down, no-nonsense design
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Yahoo and Google make it difficult to manage more than a few group memberships at a time. We make it easy. |
Invite friends to check out and join your groups
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You can send as many email invites as you want to friends. Yahoo places a limit on invites. We don't. |
Choice of discussion or announcment lists
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Discussion lists let group members post their own messages; announcement lists let only group editors do this, like a newsletter |
| Group and profile privacy controls |
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You can make a group completely private and also limit who gets to see your profile details |
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