User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/Social Networking

Local resources

• Nerdbook
• Network - implementing a scientific network directly on the wiki

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)

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