some great links

some great links from:

http://we-need-a-free-and-open-social-network.wikispaces.com/Links

Links Please add/update links relating to open source projects working on
building the open social network.

Information List of open source and decentralized social networking
projects:
http://gitorious.org/social/pages/ProjectComparison
*The Social Web Acid Test - Level 0*- an integration use case for the
federated social web
http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/SWAT0#SWAT0_Open_Standards_Protocols_and_Formats
*Open Web Foundation*- open, non-proprietary specifications for web
technologies
http://openwebfoundation.org/

Recommended Reading/Viewing: Building the user-centered web
http://benwerd.com/2009/07/building-the-user-centered-web/
Socially aware cloud storage - Design Issues- Tim Berners Lee
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html
Ten Risks of PKI: What You're not Being Told about Public Key Infrastructure
By Carl Ellison and Bruce Schneier
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pki-ft.txt
Freedom In the Cloud
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc-ny/FreedomInTheCloud-transcript.html
YouTube - Eben Moglen - Freedom in The Cloud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA
PrivacyAwareWeb - ESW Wiki
http://esw.w3.org/PrivacyAwareWeb
Features of a federated social web | StatusNet
http://status.net/2010/07/14/features-of-a-federated-social-web
FinalReport (Draft)- Social Web XG Wiki
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/FinalReport
The state of the open social web with OneSocialWeb architect- Scobleizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM4t78b-Ve4
User Centric Web
http://www.slideshare.net/sashankdvk/user-centric-web

Applications Appleseed Home
http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/ <http://appleseed.sourceforge.net/>
Drumbeat
https://www.drumbeat.org/project/appleseed-social-networking
Twitter
http://twitter.com/appleseedproj
Video
What is Appleseed? Open source + distributed social networking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR2EtTEbUc4
Donations
http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Appleseed-Project

GNU Social Home
http://www.gnu.org/software/social/
Wiki
http://gitorious.org/social/pages

Diaspora Home
http://joindiaspora.com/
Blog
http://www.joindiaspora.com/blog.html

OneSocialWeb Home
http://onesocialweb.org/
Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/onesocialweb
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/onesocialweb

*Lorea* http://lorea.cc/

NoseRub http://noserub.com/

6D http://www.get6d.com/what-is-6d

Mistpark Next generation social net from down under
Information
http://dfrn.org
Public preview
http://a.dfrn.org
Contact
dfrn@dfrn.org

Socialriver Home
http://socialriver.org/
FAQ
http://socialriver.org/faq
Blog
http://socialriver.org/blog

   Protocols Ostatus

PubSubHubbub

ActivityStreams

Salmon

XMPP http://xmpp.org/

PSYC http://about.psyc.eu/

Conferences and Events