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I haven't seen this. Looks like its funded by vodafone (big company!).
You've seen what I'm working on, right: http://status.net and using
the http://ostatus.org protocol mashup and we built http://identi.ca

Jon

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Schrijver <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I became social network junky I worry a lot about the privacy 
> implications of such centralised non-free software. So I figured social 
> networking should be distributed. And also figured that this would be a 
> ludicrous hassle to implement.
>
> But last week I came across the onesocialweb project.
> Their code went online last week (under the apache license). They rigged 
> openfire XMPP (instant messaging) servers so that they have social 
> functionality. You set up your on social network on such a server, and these 
> servers can subsequently connect into what they call ‘the federation’. 
> Distributed, connected!
>
> http://onesocialweb.org
> Since the release the first few nodes have already gone online.
>
> I just wanted to point to this project because I think this and similar 
> software can only become something if we start playing with it. Otherwise it 
> just stays a lab project or thought experiment…
> &social networking is here to stay, and in spite of common scepsis I believe 
> it can be quite stimulating for creatives.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric Schrijver
>
> ps
>
> found this via the comments on the proposals at
> http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/04/10/towards-a-gnu-autonomous-cloud
> much more interesting links in the comments including
> http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 Eben Moglen; Freedom in the cloud
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