Sonar - Project Draft

Definition

FreeSonar is a mobile free software for real-time location-based socializing, sharing PoI, self-organizing and sharing events, travelling, ride sharing and other features.

FreeSonar helps to link the virtual world of social network users into real world around them, encourageing to interact in real time at real places based on shared interests or shared activities.

FreeSonar is designed to be interoperable with other similar open services and applications carefully considers users freedom, privacy and security providing them maximal control of their visibility, ownership of their personal data and independence from proprietary services.

Description

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Features

travel plans - merging KML

TRANSPORTATION - hitch-hike/pick-up alerts

places of interest - places, tags, badges, comments

places to stay - accommodation rentals/sharing, coachserfing

Activites, Events - ...

Architecture

Geo Location Data

IP to Location mapping - traingular method

Visualization of the Radar

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Related Endeavors

Networks/Platforms/Softwares

Multi-agent systems:

• Mobile agents -
• MobiSoft Project -
• FacebookAgent -

Travel and Event Networks:

• Wikitravel - Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far it has 24,445 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.
• Eventful -

Federated/Decentralized/Peer-to-Peer Networks:

• StatusNet - Free Software Federated Microblogging Platform (e.g. Twitter). ["http://gitorious.org/StatusNet source codes].
• GNU Social - source codes.
• Diaspora -
• OStatus -
• Danube -
• PeerSon -
• OpenSocialWeb -
• Friendika -
• NoseRub -
• DiSo -
• PeerBook -

Location based social networks:

• Facebook Places -
• Google Latitude -

Augmented Reality networks:

• Layar -
• FourSquare -
• Gowalla -
• AlterGeo -

Multidimensional Federated Network Platforms:

• GEANT -
• The European Future Internet Initiative -

Existing Protocols/Technologies

Geography Markup Languages:

• GML
• KML

Social Network Common APIs:

• OpenSocial - A set of common APIs for web-based social network applications (developed by Google, MySpace and a number of other social networks).

Personal Web Discovery:

• Webfinger - Webfinger allows email addresses to be used as identifiers for persons as well letting to attach public metadata to them.

Decentralized authentication:

• OAuth - An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
• OpenID - An open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner. OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords.

Decentrilizd micro-blogging:

• Microformats - Microformats are simple conventions for embedding semantics in HTML to enable decentralized development. Microformats are small patterns of HTML to represent commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews and tags in web pages.

Decentrilizd publishing and subscribing:

• PubSubHubbub Protocol - A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.

Syndicating social activities:

• Activity Streams - A format for syndicating social activities around the web.

Distributed/Federated Social Networks:

• OStatus - A protocol suite to be used as a base for new distributed social networks.

Research/Publications

• Investigating the willingness of drivers to share space with pedestrians

Conferences

• The Where 2.0 Conference 2010
• Enterprise OpenSocial Interop Fest 2010 -
• Federated social Web Summit 2010

License

• GNU AGPL - The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.