User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Social Networking
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Local resources
Applications
Elgg
- Wired article from April 19, 2007
- open-source social networking software developed at the University of Brighton
- has been designed specifically with academic uses in mind
- a personal learning environment
- powers networks set up by nearly 50 schools and colleges around the world
- being translated into nearly 40 languages
- Around 30 private companies and other organizations, including France Telecom, are already using Elgg
- Elgg - social network software for education (article)
- Elgg-MediaWiki Integration (single sign-on along with automatic user creation in MediaWiki)
PeopleAggregator
OpenQabal
Open Source Social Networking & Collaboration Suite
Platforms
OpenSocial
OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs:
- Profile Information (user data)
- Friends Information (social graph)
- Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)
Ning
- a platform for creating social networks
- features
- For software developers with knowledge of PHP, Ning APIs, and the social network's code structure and guidelines, you can completely customize your social network's behavior. To get a copy of the code and join our developer program, send us an email
- Video demo
CrowdVine
a free social networking site that lets anyone create and customize a social network for their organization, event, or alumni group
Academic Genealogy
- AI Genealogy Project
- "One's doctoral advisor is one's academic parent. This lets us define an academic genealogy of researchers, to describe the academic ancestors and descendents of a particular set of researchers."
- Mathematics Genealogy Project
Semantic annotation
People on Ontoworld.org
Miscellaneous
- Wink free people search lets you find people at social networks like MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn & Friendster, and other online communities
- Thoughts on social graph - decentralized API for relationship systems
- Mugshot - share content from MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, blogs and more
- Explode might help users stay connected across competing networks
- SNIX - Social Networking Syndication
- an XML format to incorporate all of your profile information (including photos) into one hosted XML document that can be syndicated across multiple social networking sites
- Mashable - social networking blog
- Replace Facebook Using Open Social Tools
- DataPortability use case