[OpenID] Distributed social networking with OpenID

[tom calthrop]

Hi Evan,

We've been doing this for a while now. Please visit 
http://tom.calthrop.info - the gallery of avatars on the home page are 
people that have connected with me. This is an identity page and if I 
connect to you then I have "linked to you". If you then return to my 
site and connect you then "link" to me and thus a stronger tie is 
formed. All of this is decentralized (OpenID to OpenID with xml friends 
file).

If you go to http://www.barnraiser.org you will see a collaborative 
website with a gallery avatar. Here people connect to the site and form 
a social network around a shared interest - same principle, but without 
XML file to broadcast friends.

All software involved is free software (GPL 3) - AROUNDMe personal 
identity was used for my site and AROUNDMe collaboration server used for 
the collaborative website. All available from http://www.barnraiser.org

We've not published a paper on it because I think long term a better way 
to go is to use OAuth (which gives us privacy). Several months ago I put 
out a request on list to form a "team" to write the paper, but alas, my 
call fell silent ears.

Second call - would anyone like to join me in writing an OpenID / OAuth 
decentralized social networking specification ?


Tom


Evan Prodromou wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about how to do distributed social network with
> OpenID. Here's my current brainstorming:
>
> http://evan.prodromou.name/Open_relationships
>
> Comments very welcome.
>
> -Evan
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