Breaking Open Facebook With FOSS

NewsCloud writes "Since last December, Facebook has grown from 12 to 47 million users and third-party developers have launched more than 6,000 applications with its API. While privacy advocates have been concerned about Google for the past several years, most of us are just beginning to comprehend Facebook's growing impact on who, when, what and how we connect with friends. Microsoft's recent $240 million investment in the company gives it all the capital it needs for further growth. Last August, Wired published two unusual stories describing how consumers might link together a variety of third-party services to emulate Facebook, and ultimately calling on the open-source software community to build alternatives to the service. Inspired in part by Wired, I've posted some ideas describing what would be needed for an open source architecture for social networking."

Comments

slashdot comment profiling

[SethJohnson]

perhaps slashdot could build comment moderation profiles and then offer a filter of only the type of comments I'm going to want to read.... As it is, the moderation system on slashdot creates one messy big profile for all readers.

Everyone could moderate all the time for this system. Then my profile develops a network of other readers who share my preferences for comments. As I visit Slashdot stories that have been moderated by thousands of readers, my shared-perspective readers would bubble up the comments that will most appeal to me-- not just the popular comments that appeal to the largest number of moderators.

Maybe this doesn't match the topic here. Sorry- the topic made me think of this...

Seth

Re:Clarification Did you mean Clearasil®?

[infonography]

it may be the only way to clear up Facebook and remove the acne.