[OpenID] OpenID based decentralized social networking

[tom]

Hi All,

We sat down a while ago and discussed the idea of a 'killer apps' for 
OpenID. This led us to experiment with OpenID which we promptly fell in 
love with, hence we decided to rebuild our leading piece of software 
around it, so after four months of hard grind I'm very happy to announce 
the release of *AROUNDMe version 1.0; the perfect solution for anyone 
wishing to create a collaborative social space on the Web.

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You can think of AROUNDMe as a MySpace / Ning clone, but built around 
OpenID. With AROUNDMe you can create one or many web sites by simply 
entering your OpenID. In each web site you get tools such as a wiki, 
blog and forum from which you can build your social space! All these are 
permission based using your OpenID.


I'm not sure if this is the first application written specifically for 
OpenID, but until flamed I'm going to claim that:) What we hope is that 
this takes OpenID into the web2.0 mashup space.


We've done a real hack at adding bookmarking, messaging and social 
networking into our OpenID server (big thanks to JanRain for open 
sourcing their server which we used as a base for this experiment). Over 
the next few months you'll see us document this and work openly towards 
proposing a set of standards we wish we'd like to present the the OpenID 
Foundation.


To give you a tour, go to http://demo.barnraiser.info/ . You can log in 
with "demo" and a password of "demo4me". Connect to 
http://aroundme.barnraiser.net <http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/> , 
select an article and add the author to your network!... The authors 
OpenID is added to your social network, a network which you can surf . 
yup -- decentralized social networking (our suggested killer app:)


If you want to comment or talk about it feel free to visit 
http://openid.barnraiser.net <http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/> and post 
a message in the forum. We hope to gather a voluntary group to 
collaborate around this development in there. Our next step is to 
document what we have done and present it at 
http://openid.barnraiser.net <http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/>


AROUNDMe is GNU software and is released under the GPL license and is 
available from http://www.barnraiser.org/. Feel free to advocate it as 
we have the marketing skills of a dead parrot. We hope to work with you 
all to create open standards for social networking, bookmarking and 
messaging and release GPL'ed builds over the next year.


tom <http://www.barnraiser.org/>







-- 
Tom Calthrop
Founder, Barnraiser.

dedicated to giving people the tools they need to share 
knowledge and advance society through social software.

http://www.barnraiser.org/

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