ibeatYou, a social network where you compete with other people, sounds like it will be an instant success but what's up with that sign up form? :)

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Wordpress MU, the multi-user version of the Wordpress blogging engine powers gazillions of blogs on Wordpress.com and is to get social networking features following Automattic's hiring of BuddyPress creator Andy Peatling.

The BuddyPress site is currently moving servers but you can still get the open source BuddyPress code from Google Code.

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