[OpenID] OpenID based decentralized social networking

[Stephen Paul Weber]

This does not really seem to be social networking or decentralised... A
collaborative space with OpenID login, yes, and OpenID server with some
social networking stuff, yes.  Videntity.org comes MUCH closer to being
decentralized social networking for OpenID (and Microformats!  The two
communities together achieve so much more than when apart... ;) ).  I've
been doing some experiments and coding around both Videntity and Wordpress
to try and get us all the way to decentralized social networking, but not
quite there yet... especially since the only good hCard search engine folded
awhile back.

This is interesting, but doesn't seem to really live up to the subject line
;)

On 6/15/07, tom <tom at barnraiser.org> wrote:
>
>  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.
>
> *
>
> 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 , 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/>
>
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>
>  --
> 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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