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PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. XFN by cgranade · · Score: 4, Informative

    An open-source social protocol already exists... not a site, but an XML protocol for marking links as having a social significance. The recently announced Nvu supports links with XFN information. I would love to see if this network supports XFN, so that it could tie into other XFN-compliant networks and sites.

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  2. Friendster and open source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    A bit OT, but while the friendster code may not be open, sure looks like they love it on the backend

    http://www.friendster.com/jobs/

    They even use an acronymn, LAMP, to refer to Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL/Python

  3. Re:What is FOAF by Gorilla+with+a+Priap · · Score: 5, Informative
    Friend of a Friend

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  4. Re:the wonders of PHP: by TardisX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Errr, surely rule #1 is to make sure you allow more mysql processes than maximum apache children?

    Is it a common php 'admin' mindset to just hide errors rather than make sure they don't happen in the first place?

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