the best FREE social networking/directory script?
 

Just wandering what you consider to be the best social networking and or directory listing scripts out there?

Preferably cheap or free!

Im looknif for something a bit like facebook/myspace but also has the ability to list places in a directory

WordpressMU with Buddypress is one to look at, if you are familiar with WP this will be fairly easy to get rolling.

cheers, ill look into it!

Bump for more suggestions..

Dosent seem there are many however i came across this:
http://www.ning.com/

I didn't think ning was allowing adult sites any longer.

Buddypress has promise - I've been using it for a few months on tow different domains - but it sucks. No photo gallery, no chat included, groups are lame. I love WP - but Bpress is probably another year (or two at this rate) from being ready for actual live site deployment.

I saw this script: http://directory.javier-garcia.com/ running another adult site today - there is a free version. From my 2 minutes of surfing it looks promising.

You are the best php programmer in uk huh? I may have some projects to send your way.

I am using ning.com at the moment for mainstream social network, they don't allow adult anymore.