Is this something that that OpenSocial ( http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ ) can help with? A good number of social sites already support that. I haven't looked into the guts of it too deeply, but I think it can support a federated social network pretty well.
Sam On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > Reading a bit more in this thread, I think 'federated social network' is a > more accurate term than 'p2p social network' with regards to examples I'm > looking for. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@cs.stanford.edu> > wrote: >> >> Adam, the use-case I have in mind is not specific - I am asking generally >> about the feasibility of running facebook on top of a distributed social >> network. Lately I've become concerned about the concentration of power in >> Facebook's hands. >> From a theoretical point of view I don't see why a distributed social net >> couldn't work. GMail works with YahooMail works with Hotmail, etc. Of course >> there are much bigger challenges distributing a social net across different >> providers, but it should be achievable. >> So when I say P2P I don't necessarily mean fully distributed - I mean more >> of the e-mail model. >> >> Best, >> Susheel >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Adam Fisk <a...@littleshoot.org> wrote: >>> >>> I don't really know of any per se, but I also think it's a tricky >>> proposition. As Mr. Gorton always used to say, P2P works best for big files, >>> and I really agree. The raw social networking stuff is so data driven and so >>> cheap and predominantly such small files that I think doing it via p2p is >>> making a relatively simple problem all of a sudden hard. >>> >>> That said, I'm sure you have a specific use-case in mind, or you wouldn't >>> have asked =). >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Susheel Daswani <sdasw...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does anyone know of any? >>>> Thanks! >>>> Susheel >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> p2p-hackers mailing list >>>> p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com >>>> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Adam Fisk >>> http://www.littleshoot.org | http://adamfisk.wordpress.com | >>> http://twitter.com/adamfisk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
