I would encourage you to implement compatibility with the "federated social web". There are too many distributed social networks (about 30 i guess), and usually their only inhabitants are test users. The federated social web solves both this critical-mass problem and the silo lock-in problem. It is an initiative that turns the boundaries of social networks inside out, so that two people who use different social networks (say one person on diaspora and one person on magna) can communicate freely, just like people who use different email clients can communicate freely. The vision is not of many social networks, but of one interconnected social web. The stack of protocols they are implementing is called OStatus, and is based mainly on pubsubhubbub for handling inter-network subscriptions.
http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/Main_Page 2011/1/15 Jan Domański <jan...@gmail.com> > Hello everybody out there interested in p2p social networking, > > I'm doing a (free) p2p social network (just a hobby, won’t be big and > professional like diaspora). It has been in the works since summer, and > begins to get some shape. I'd like any feedback on things people > like/dislike in the idea of a p2p social network and how this is solved by > the little toy. > > I've currently written it in java, netty handles the networking, Qt is used > for GUI. Some yml for configs and db4o for storage. Non-blocking xml (XMPP) > parser is a missing puzzle. The app has been run only on a single machine, > but it's already practical and I'd like to know what features most people > would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement > them :] > > Two demos (the top one is new) below, gitorious and blog links inside > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAwCsYt16w > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1dujrhGvBQ > > Jan (jan.doman...@new.ox.ac.uk) > > PS. Yes - it's all my own work and done as a scientist not a programmer, > which has terrible implications for code ;) > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >
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