[FC-discuss] Decentralized social networking

[Fred Benenson]

Yes, they also need some branding strategy. Facebook is a lame name, but at
least it gets its point across.


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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Rich Jones <miserlou at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly, the abundance of these is the very reason they will all fail.
>
> Open standards are the only standards.
>
> R
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Stephen Paul Weber
> <singpolyma at singpolyma.net> wrote:
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> > Somebody claiming to be Nelson Pavlosky wrote:
> >> I personally think that BuddyPress <http://buddypress.org/>, a social
> >> networking modification to Wordpress MU, has a lot of potential, and I
> >> think that if they add in federation / cross-site communication like
> >> Identica/Laconica it could be a good Facebook replacement.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Gabriel Joel Perez
> >> <gabrieljoel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > In the past many members of Free Culture have expressed interest on
> the idea
> >> > of a decentralized social network. Well there seems to be an
> organization
> >> > working on a protocol and implementation for such a thing,
> >> > http://noserub.com/ . It looks really interesting, I really hope it
> catches
> >> > on.
> >
> > Another good project working on this stuff is <http://diso-project.org>
> >
> > - --
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