PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network

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PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 30, 2004 @12:53PM from the eye-keeeees-you dept.

prostoalex writes "When Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, Zaibatsu and Tribe.net just don't cut it, meet PeopleAggregator, an open-source, PHP-written, FOAF-based social network. There's the site and there's the source in case you decide to launch your own. I found out about PeopleAggregator reading this interview with Mark Canter on Read/Write Web today." I wish such sites would provide profile-conversion tools to encourage jumping ship from one to another.

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Wow by panxerox · 2004-03-30 12:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Another (better?) method to avoid coming in physical contact with other people.

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1. Re:Wow by boarder8925 · 2004-03-30 12:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Another (better?) method to avoid coming in physical contact with other people.
  AIM, Slashdot, and phpBB just were't enough.
  
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Looks like by xSquaredAdmin · 2004-03-30 12:55 · Score: 5, Funny

it aggregated too many people.

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1. Re:Looks like by frenetic3 · 2004-03-30 13:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Looks like a sausagefest too. Marc? Ben? Roland? Sean?
  
  I need Charlenes here people. Claires. Colettes. Tortured twentysomething souls who lean forward in sleazy web cam shots just to show a little cleavage.
  
  Work with me here! :)
  
  -fren
  
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the wonders of PHP: by rokzy · 2004-03-30 12:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 251

Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 251

Session: connection failed

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php:251) in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/main. php on line 36

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php:251) in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/main. php on line 36

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php:251) in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/main. php on line 37
Reminds me of a joke... by alan_dershowitz · 2004-03-30 12:58 · Score: 5, Funny

hearing about technical people writing "social networking" software.

How do you tell if an engineer is an extrovert?

He looks at YOUR shoes when he's talking.
Note to everyone: by Neil+Blender · 2004-03-30 12:59 · Score: 5, Funny

You don't need a program, website, or even a computer to make friends.
You just open the door, go outside and...OH MY GOD, the SUN, it BURNS&..&}=20 ]} } } }&..}=3Dr}'}"}[NO CARRIER]
I get too many emails already. by sulli · 2004-03-30 13:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Can someone build a PeopleGoAwaytor (tm)?

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1. Re:I get too many emails already. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 13:58 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  To quote bash.org:
  
  "I'm going to become rich and famous after I invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet."
2. Re:I get too many emails already. by don.g · 2004-03-30 14:58 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You mean like Introvertster?
  
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Re:This passes for news? by pavon · 2004-03-30 13:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Okay... So this is yet another social network. Except it open sourced. Hell, the blurb tells you how many social networks there already are. Why does this pass as news?

Because, since the source is open, we geeks can modify it work in ways the original author never dreamed. Like implementing a social network of one, or creating a network of AI friends. It would also be perfect for modeling the intricate relationships of the cast of ST:TNG. The possibilities are endless!

Could you do any of that with your proprietary invitation only network? I didn't think so.
Re:so what? by xSquaredAdmin · 2004-03-30 13:05 · Score: 1, Funny

Whoops. Forgot my HTML tags.

Yeah... and imagine a beowulf cluster of these...

Last time I checked, a large gathering of people was called a party...

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Social Networking Experiment by illuminata · 2004-03-30 13:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Anybody want to be my friend :) :) :) :)??? Post below ;)!

... :(

Experiment failed.

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1. Re:Social Networking Experiment by Xeed · 2004-03-30 14:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I will be your friend.... oh, wait...
  
  I can't do that, sorry. It just wouldn't work out between us.
  
  I've seen your past comments, and I'm just looking for someone with a little more karma. Also, your UID is a little too high for my taste. You're just not my type.
  
  It's not you, it's me.
  
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Re:Nerdy friend connection? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 13:08 · Score: 5, Funny

What ever happened to people meeting at the mall, bars, concerts, school, etc...??

You don't belong here.
Re:Friendster and open source by frenetic3 · 2004-03-30 13:12 · Score: 4, Funny

sure looks like they love it on the backend

mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in /usr/web/peopleaggregator/env_production/lib/adodb /drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php on line 251

looks like this site just took it in the backend. :P

-fren

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In case it gets slashdotted by bluenirve · 2004-03-30 13:18 · Score: 5, Funny

In case the site gets taken down:
Damn. Oh hell. We got slashdotted. And the main site wasn't even running the current code revision. Back in a bit. 19:14CST
oops..
If you like this you'll love my new social network by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 13:21 · Score: 0, Funny

I called the VirtualYourMom'sBasement.
Re:MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL by Lord+of+Ironhand · 2004-03-30 13:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Any way to turn off display of males?
apt-get remove mutt
Ehrm...
Yes making funny comments on /. by SmallFurryCreature · 2004-03-30 13:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Sad bastards who get marked funny on slashdot are well known to have no contact with people let alone physical contact with either sex.
Thank god I am not one of those.

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1. Re:Yes making funny comments on /. by DarkHelmet · 2004-03-30 13:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'd flag you troll, or informative, or insightful, or flamebait, or anything else that's not funny out of pity, but they took my mod points away when I started pretending that I had a life.
  I was only kidding... Stupid mods. I have no life! Come on guys!
  
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2. Re:Yes making funny comments on /. by francium+de+neobie · 2004-03-31 02:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Is this the newest Karma whore technique?
me also by goon+america · 2004-03-30 13:53 · Score: 2, Funny

I wish such sites would provide profile-conversion tools to encourage jumping ship from one to another.
I wish people would go for the common good against their own best interest, too.
Bad joke... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · 2004-03-30 13:58 · Score: 2, Funny

... an open-source, PHP-written ...
Good Lord, I'll bet it even uses that PlySkool database, MySQL... It certainly can't be "enterprise" quality... Bahhhh!

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Re:Future ideas by TyrelHaveman · 2004-03-30 14:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Sounds interesting. I'm too busy reading slashdot all day to implement such a thing, though.
Re:What is FOAF by Cajun+Hell · 2004-03-30 16:25 · Score: 2, Funny

Foe of a Foe. Don't you want to meet your enemy's enemies? They're your friends, and good candidates for being recruited into your conspiracy.

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Re:But... by gblues · 2004-03-30 16:34 · Score: 2, Funny

No, it's an Open Source Dork Network.

Get it right. Sheesh.

Nathan
Re:Nerdy friend connection? by God!+Awful+2 · 2004-03-30 19:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Although the open-source project is cool.

Yeah, with a name like PeopleAggregator it sounds *so* cool. I bet they spent a whole 5 minutes on that one.

-a

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