Federated Social Networking System

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TODO: rename to Federated Social Networking System

Broadly speaking, social networking sites do four things for their member: visualize, mine and expand their network and express themselves to others in the network. These sites are all fairly similar in their construction and how they work. The differentiators are in focus and implementation. To wit, they are all centralized in their construction.

Centralized meaning that members come to the site and manage their networks through the site itself. MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, etc., the sites themselves emare/em the network in one sense. This is not a bad thing, but it does raise the question, can it be done another way?

A federated system, whereby the network is established by the nodes themselves rather than through a central organization, is one option. This approach is particularly intriguing because if we consider how the largest, most useful network--the Internet--works, it is federated. Rather than creating the network as centralized systems do, a federated system instead creates the tools and leaves it to members to create the network. By pushing power and responsibility to the edges, members can more easily join, more easily express themselves, and, perhaps most important, it is easier for members to add value to the network and they are more motivated to do so.

Following are ideas and examples on how one would implement a specific federated social networking system. They have been protected because they represent a long term strategy which I am working on implementing. As pieces are implemented and no longer benefit from protection, they will be declassified.

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