<topPost /><offTopic /> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ http://status.net/ http://rejon.status.net + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
