Klostu.com, developed by Pidgin Technologies, is a unique new platform which brings together existing disparate message board communities and their members into what is essentially a super social network - a network of social networks.
Klostu provides members of boards (and even blogs) advanced profiles with a growing range of social tools and useful widgets. Klostu profiles appear within the boards and will move seamlessly from one board to another, wherever the user may travel on the boardscape.
Klostu provides an advanced 'ajax desktop' style interface to manage user profiles and social activity including finding friends, comments, instant messaging with jabber, rss reading and sharing, blogging, galleries, videos and more.
A Klostu account is also a powerful unified identity which can be used to automatically signup and login effortlessly to any board thereby lowering barriers to participation and boosting board membership and activity across the entire boardscape.
While Klostu offers all the social networking and ajax desktop interface features expected today (and more), a key feature which emphasizes the real power of klostu is its function as a platform to bring other web services to the boards. Through klostu, a whole range of 3rd party products can be fully integrated within boards thereby easily extending their reach to millions of people active on the boardscape.
Board admins can instantly have any number of cool web services to offer their users, helping to keep them online and active even longer and enriching their communities.
Board users can also share all kinds of their web activity with their friends and other board users by including 3rd party widgets in their profile pages.
Other Pidgin Technologies properties include Fotopages.com, a popular foto blogging site and BoardTracker.com, the leading forum search engine.