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PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network
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.
Another (better?) method to avoid coming in physical contact with other people.
"It's so convenient to have a system where everyone is a criminal" - A. Hitler
it aggregated too many people.
Crushing dreams at the speed of sarcasm
Slashster is an Open Source PHP / Mysql based FOAF.
Congrats to PeopleAggregator for making Slashdot though. Dunno why my site didn't make front page... Heh.
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Even though opensource is a good thing, why make it so anyone can install it. If it's not certizilied, it's not going to make many hits or matchs. If it was two people like over /. or a message board, that would be different because you aren't looking for a stranger.
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What ever happened to people meeting at the mall, bars, concerts, school, etc...??
I hate to admit it, but I imagine most of these social-network people are the nerdy type. Not that I'm saying that's bad, but most of us probably already have some nerdy friends. Why not get out and meet people in real life to havae a well-balanced friend social network?
Although the open-source project is cool.
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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.
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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You don't need a program, website, or even a computer to make friends.
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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
Can someone build a PeopleGoAwaytor (tm)?
sulli
RTFJ.
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.
Steal This Book? No, steal this business!
And programmers wonder why they're unemployed.
Listen, this is great. I mean, I like receiving a gift as much as the next guy, but...
I always wonder what people are thinking when they start a business like this and then immediately open source the code and make it publicly available so that anyone and everyone can immediately compete.
Oh, wait. They're going to make their money on support. Or is it custom applications?
And just how do you explain this to the VC? How do you word this on the prospectus?
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
If you're a cubicle rat, then yeah, I guess the whole FOAF thing seems a little too much like high school dating logistics. But if you translate introductions into opportunities and know how to write a compelling message, then some of these social networks are godsends.
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Experiment failed.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
What ever happened to people meeting at the mall, bars, concerts, school, etc
Not everybody knows how to drive an automobile. Not everybody drinks alcohol. Not everybody can afford tickets to those few live performances offered at venues friendly to those who either by choice or by statute do not drink alcohol. Some students ride a bus to and from school and thus do not have time to meet beforehand or afterwards.
In addition, electronic FOAF systems are much cheaper than inter-city bus fare or airplane fare for meeting friends who have interests that aren't all that common in smaller cities of 50,000 or so.
I've been carrying out an experiment over the past few months to get in touch with a famous author/mathematician. He's written on the subject and it just absolutely fascinates me. The idea is to send a few letters to friends and see how quickly it can reach the destination through the hops. Theoretically you could get to the author with just six or seven hops. I sent a few letters to some associates but these got only to the third or fourth level before dying out. I'm going to increase the initial broadcast with a different, more academic oriented group this time. Software like the link shows (well, what I got before the ./ing) is almost perfect to track the results.
On a related note, a book called "Nexus" by M. Buchanan discusses social and other networks. Decent treatment, but unfortunately no equations or numbers.
I've ever come in contact with can hardly read or write (some can't do either) and are not computer savvy and don't have computers. It seems to me that internet-based "society" will be as boring, and as socially stimulating as being a white anglosaxon protestant male and attending a white anglosaxon protestant male boarding school. ie. Lotsa self and group masturbation but no clue what the real planet is about.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
The value in friendster is not the technology really -- witness the number of open-source ripoffs (there are several more besides this one, even -- slashster and others have been mentioned) and so on. It's the critical mass of millions of users they've attained.
You can have the slickest and fastest social networking site (or IM client, or p2p client, or "portal"...) in the world but without users (no, being open source is not a "feature", end users don't care), a killer feature/gimmick, or an insane marketing budget, it's useless.
-fren
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
apt-get remove mutt
Ehrm...
So true. And whereas this was an obvious Slashdot Effect joke, there is some insight hidden behind the idea.
Obviously the concept of a social network site where the entire network has to register with one site is going to be doomed to failure in the end.
The first problem is that in order to build a social network big enough to fit everyone interested in being registered on the network, you need a cluster big enough to store every user on the Internet. By my guess, Orkut is the only one with access to this kind of cluster size, because it is hosted by Google.
The second problem is that as soon as you have two social network sites, you have a problem where someone wants to be on both sites. Then you add a third site and you have a problem where that person wants to be on three sites. How many social network sites are there now?
This is the same problem we already see with instant messaging, and is why the newer, more sophisticated IM systems such as Jabber allow the servers to intercommunicate. You can be on whatever server you want, and have contacts on your list who are on whatever server they want.
So here is my idea: distribute the social networks. A user joins the server they want, is allocated a user id which is user@domain.com, analogous to a Jabber ID, and they can add people to their network who exist on other servers.
Communities would work similarly with community@communities.domain.com, people join a community by registering their user ID on the server which hosts the community. For instance, the Slashdot community might be slashdot@communities.slashdot.org.
Now, if all these communities can export FOAF and RDF and agree on how to do any other kind of data manipulation, any program can easily merge cross-site data together to form larger networks if they need, and the work won't have to be done by a single server, it can be done on the client at the user's leisure.
And more importantly, the solution will actually scale.
Who's with me?
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
What ever happened to people meeting at the mall, bars, concerts, school, etc...??
... move them rhymthmically around the dance floor ... and they love it.
I'll second this.
I'm a nerdy, basically shy person myself.
Learning to dance saved my social life -- talking ballroom dance here, swing and waltz and foxtrot.
Women go for that stuff, trust me on this one. The fellow who knows how to waltz has got it made. You get to approach strangers, make conversation with them, lead them onto the dance floor, put your hands on them, your arms around them
Paradise!
-kgj
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It would be very cool of the Open Source network sites had a way of generating GUIDs for each user and the ability to link together.
Amazing magic tricks
Thank god I am not one of those.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
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It appears his old baby, Macromedia's Director, just got it's development team dissolved/outsourced/offshored to India.
Don't know what to think.
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I wish people would go for the common good against their own best interest, too.
Good Lord, I'll bet it even uses that PlySkool database, MySQL... It certainly can't be "enterprise" quality... Bahhhh!
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So, when you're buying antique vases, buy ones with fish. They're worth the most.
Is Slashdot not an Open Source Social Network?
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FOAF documents are, in essence, machine-readable home pages.
So, when you're buying antique vases, buy ones with fish. They're worth the most.
All of the friends and acquaintances I know who use social networking are NOT geeky (but then i have few geeky friends, all of whom don't use social networking). All of the people I know using these sites are totally not geeky and are mostly somewhat trendy if a bit on the counter culture side of it believe it or not. I'm 19 however, and people of my age are significantly more tech savy. Perhaps as you get into older people technophobia creeps in.
Just go on friendster or myspace sometime and you'll notice the fact that most people there are not geeky at all, and that there's probably an even mix of boys and girls.
Photos.
I can only hope that we, the net citizens, will eventually push back on these mega sites to get some standards produced.
Imagine if each ISP ran a standards-compliant IM server for its users. No more "Do you use Yahoo or MSN? No, oh well, we can't chat." Instead, each IM server vendor would compete to have ISPs install their server but work with all other vendors' products instead of segregating users into disparate networks.
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I guess the War on Terror really is about freedom!
The idea behind social networks is that in theory, when everyone participates in a social network, you can easily find people through your connections.
But once you have so many networks (and the craze is only starting) then even in theory you can't have all your friends on the same network.
At least I know can't possibly be active on all of them.
I think what networks are aspiring to do is unachievable because their scope is so small. We already have our social network, it's called Internet and it is successful because there is only one Internet.
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The success of a social networking tool depends on the people that use it - it doesn't depend on whether it is open source or not... If you are wanting to meet different beautiful people I suggest you stay away from a social network where the only people who are going to join are your existing group of friends!!
20:21 Central
While we scramble behind the scenes to put things back together, we'll share the slashdot love and link to other sites where you can get more information about FOAF.
FOAF Info:
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
19:14 Central
Oh hell. We got slashdotted. And the main site wasn't even running the current code revision. Back in a bit.
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
It's not even a case of being a great dancer, or takeing someone home with you, it's just a case of doing something together, and having fun. And that's one of the first steps towards a social life.
... it's a joyous thing to do.
... but in my experience, people go dancing to have a good time, not to be "better" than other dancers. Even really good dancers! Some of the best dances I ever danced, my partner was a professional dancer, way more experienced than my amateur self ... and she made me feel like I had all the right moves. Go on, try it -- you'll like it.
... which means, the leader decides what to do, and the follower follows. Yes yes, the way a follower follows does influence how a leader leads ... but there's the mystery, my friend: there's no way to explain leading a priori ... you simply have to do it until you get it. And when you do, the world's your oyster, mate!
Good points.
You make friends, you have fun.
Sure, it can be part of a courtship ritual -- yes, you might get laid -- hell, you might even get married: I did! -- but all that stuff can seem very secondary, when the dance is swinging just right
-kgj
PS - Note to newbie dancers: stop worrying about it, nobody is staring and judging. It's not that you're invisible
PPS - THE BIG SECRET: learn to lead. (Talking ballroom dance here -- it's different in some other forms of dance.) It's not really about steps! It's about leading
-kgj
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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All these social networks would be much more powerful if they could share data using a system like the Mailbox Reputation Network