The Distributed Social Networking Puzzle: Putting The Pieces Tog. Distributed social networking - where users can connect their profile, friends and other data across multiple sites - is still a relatively new concept and not fully developed. There are plenty of companies and projects vying to be a major piece of the distributed social networking puzzle. The big Internet companies have initiatives such as OpenSocial (Google), Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Availability, Yahoo! Open Strategy. There are also smaller company and open source projects such as DiSo and Noserub (we explain these below). For users the following scenario explains the end goal, albeit too simplistically: in a distributed social networking world you would be able to access your Facebook friends in MySpace, and vice versa.
We spotted an interesting screencast in the ReadWriteWeb Friendfeed room, The Future of Tech, that explains distributed social networking more. Distributed Social Networking - An Introduction from pixelsebi on Vimeo. DSNP: Distributed Social Networking Protocol. DSNP: Distributed Social Networking Protocol private. decentralized. scalable. *** NOTICE *** DSNP is no longer active. What is DSNP? DSNP is a protocol for distributed social networking. It allows everyone to collaborate to create one social network that is decentralized, like the Internet itself. It is an open technology that supports private communications, in a manner that users of modern social networks have come to expect. Why DSNP? It is well known that the value of any network is determined by its membership. The central idea behind DSNP is that users should be free to choose where they host their profile, without the decision impacting who they are able to invite as connections.
Security It is easy to share information on the web. Overview Paper This short paper (5 pages) provides a quick overview of DSNP. The Protocol and Reference Implementation Although the basic techniques are established, DSNP changes rapidly. The reference implementation comes in two parts. History Author. OpenSocial - Google Code. DiSo Project. Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? - ReadWriteWeb. Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. So far it's just a vision, albeit a pretty specific one, but we expect to see something like this on the market very soon.
Is it what you want? Now is a good time to share your thoughts on the subject. "Distributed Social Networking" (DiSO) is what a growing number of people are calling the move to aggregate and integrate our activities, data and social connections built up on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and our personal blogs. (See also the DiSO Project.) Marc Canter believes that the "dashboard" is the best metaphor to manage all this activity through. Your DiSO dashboard might serve as a new interface for your blog, your social networking account, or be a stand alone service itself. DiSo Dashboard Outline View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Outline diso.