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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hi All,<br>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">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
<b>AROUNDMe version 1.0; the perfect solution for anyone wishing to
create a collaborative social space on the Web.<br>
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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.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">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.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">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.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">To give you a tour, go
to <a href="http://demo.barnraiser.info/">http://demo.barnraiser.info/</a>
. You can log in with “demo” and a password of “demo4me”.
Connect to <a href="http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/">http://aroundme.barnraiser.net</a>
, 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:)</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you want to comment
or talk about it feel free to visit <a
href="http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/">http://openid.barnraiser.net</a>
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
<a href="http://aroundme.barnraiser.net/">http://openid.barnraiser.net</a>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">AROUNDMe is GNU
software and is released under the GPL license and is available from
<a href="http://www.barnraiser.org/">http://www.barnraiser.org/</a>.
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.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">tom<a
href="http://www.barnraiser.org/"></a></p>
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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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.barnraiser.org/">http://www.barnraiser.org/</a></pre>
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