Eben Moglen’s call for a free and decentralized social networking platform seems to have been heard 🙂 OneSocialWeb, Apache2 license, developed by Vodafone R&D Labs
The purpose of onesocialweb is to enable free, open, and decentralized social applications on the web. Its protocol can be used to turn any XMPP server into a full fledged social network, participating in the onesocialweb federation.
Looks interesting: did anybody play with it?
via Docs – OneSocialWeb – Creating a free, open, and decentralized social networking platform..
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You might be interested in Connectr – https://launchpad.net/connectr which implements a ‘decentralized twitter’. Its a one man project I’ve seen the author demonstrate it.
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You may also wnat to look at the Noserub project out of Germany. Dirk and co have a decentralised social networking system that includes micropublishing and so forth. 🙂
It’s over at http://www.noserub.com
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Amazing, thanks for the information. I’ll start playing with NoseRub very soon.
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Hi Stefano,
very interesting stuff .)
What about a semantic decentralised twitter integrated with Linked Data and based on the principle of reusing our personal information? It’s SMOB:
-> SMOB
Recently Alexandre has released the new version:
-> SMOB v2.0
-> SMOB v2.2 – Geolocation and other improvements
Also it’s interesting on this kind of stuff knowee:
-> Your contacts, the webby way
Semantic Web and Linked Data stuff is decentralized by design .)
Power and control to the people, not to the platform.
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Thanks Matteo! I’m very interested in these platforms. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to run Noserub on my hosting provider (1and1 — they don’t provide access to error.log so I have limited ways to debug). I’ll dive into SMOB soon.
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SMOB is not so complex to install:
-> SMOB 1.0 on my domain with the aggregator based on SIMILE Exhibit
-> SMOB 2 on my domain, i’m testing it
You only need a FOAF profile and a personal URI to identify yourself in the setup process…
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