DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web. Our first target is WordPress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.
"Beehive is an internal social networking site that gives IBMers a "rich connection to the people they work with” on both a personal and a professional level. Beehive helps employees make new connections, track current friends and coworkers, and renew contacts with people they have worked with in the past. When employees join Beehive, they get a profile page. They can use the status message field and the free-form 'About Me' section on their profile page to let other people at IBM know where they are, what they are doing, and what they are thinking. Beehive also lets them post photos, create lists to share their thoughts, and organize events."
"Ringside Networks on Tuesday plans to announce an open-source server for running social applications on existing Web sites, Facebook, and other social-networking destinations in the future."
Dan Bricklins Präsentation auf der Blogtalk, Kritik an naiven Konzepten der Abbildung und Abbildbarkeit von Beziehungen sozialen Netzen. Hält am Schutz der Privatspäre fest.
"See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use, easily figure out where you're missing connections with your friends, interact with multiple sites at once, and more!" - In privater Beta; Screenshot erinnert an Tumblelogs.
"GyPSii is a location-based social networking application that promises to take the social networking phenomenon mobile ... CNN's Adrian Finighan is willing to bet that GyPSii 'will soon be as big a phenomenon as Facebook. Bigger, perhaps.'"
"To explore the methods used in understanding structural and behavioral properties of large complex interactive networks." - Liste mit grundlegenden Texten
"After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications."
"The Facebook Platform... means you can use lots of cool new applications within Facebook. We’ve tested most of them,... Here are more than 30 of the best, with more being added as they are announced..."
"The Obama application puts the most recent campaign video and news on your profile and in front of your friends. It also enables you to easily communicate with your friends in early primary states where support for Barack is especially important..."
"After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing."
"The Appleseed Project is an effort to create open source Social Networking software that is based on a distributed model. For instance, a profile on one Appleseed website could "friend" a profile on another Appleseed website, and the two profiles could i
"XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.... XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags,..."
"Wakoopa tracks what kind of software or games you use, and lets you create your own software profile. Ready for you to share with the world. Why? Because what you use on your desktop is who you are!"
"Vizster is an interactive visualization tool for online social networks, allowing exploration of the community structure of social networking services such as friendster.com, tribe.net, and orkut."