[OpenID] OpenID based decentralized social networking

Sat Jun 16 07:23:44 UTC 2007

Hi Stephen Paul,

I had not come across Videntity.org. Congratulations on your work!

I note that you use XFN. This uses a rel tag per contact which is an 
approach we rejected in favour of a rel tag pointing to an XML file 
containing your contacts. Look at the source of tom.barnraiser.info to 
see the tag. I prefer to use a standard such as XML for this type of 
data over a rel tag per contact in a webpage. Apart from that we use the 
same principle. We visit the remote OpenID page, grab the XML file and 
render it, hence my email title is entirely valid.

We can all spar over who did what first or we can come together and 
create an open standard by which all OpenID service providers mutually 
follow so that everyone benefits. Lukas is up to stuff, you're up to 
stuff, we're up to stuff - I propose we join forces. If you agree then 
email me.

BTW - I was attempting to not pollute this list with social networking 
formats, hence we have a forum at http://openid.barnraiser.net 
<http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/>  . I propose we continue OpenID social 
networking chat there and return to this list when we have more to show.

tom

Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> 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 
> <http://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 <mailto: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 <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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Tom Calthrop
>     Founder, Barnraiser.
>
>     dedicated to giving people the tools they need to share 
>     knowledge and advance society through social software.
>
>
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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.

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