http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:10:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-506164 Mike Mon, 19 May 2008 09:47:45 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-506164 You might want to know of another implementation of a distributed social network, named Minerva. At this moment it comes as a Wordpress plugin and enables a self hosted Wordpress blog to be a part of an ad-hoc social network. Best part, it doesn't depend on OpenId (nor any other 3rd party for authentication) and it's open source as well. You might want to know of another implementation of a distributed social network, named Minerva. At this moment it comes as a Wordpress plugin and enables a self hosted Wordpress blog to be a part of an ad-hoc social network. Best part, it doesn’t depend on OpenId (nor any other 3rd party for authentication) and it’s open source as well.

]]> http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-325927 John Eckman Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:03:16 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-325927 Testing the WP-OpenID plug-in by commenting on my own blog. Testing the WP-OpenID plug-in by commenting on my own blog.

]]> http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-314202 Joe Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:31:36 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/12/13/distributed-social-networking#comment-314202 Good post John - Makes me almost regret getting a little ahead of the curve with this in my enterprise apps. Everyone and their sister is baking profiles/networks in to their <i>platforms</i> (see MTCS, ConnectBeam, SharePoint, Confluence, etc.), and I'm hoping Shindig and DiSo have a shot at commoditizing and standardizing the space so <b>all</b> content apps can plug in to the social graph (aka: the new middleware). Good post John – Makes me almost regret getting a little ahead of the curve with this in my enterprise apps. Everyone and their sister is baking profiles/networks in to their platforms (see MTCS, ConnectBeam, SharePoint, Confluence, etc.), and I’m hoping Shindig and DiSo have a shot at commoditizing and standardizing the space so all content apps can plug in to the social graph (aka: the new middleware).

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