Related ICT Endeavours

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 -
• 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

Distributed/Federated Social Networks:

• OStatus - A protocol suite to be used as a base for new distributed social networks. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near-real-time

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/Identity:

• 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.

Research/Publications

• Investigating the willingness of drivers to share space with pedestrians

• [PeerSon
• [FaceBook Agent
• The European Future Internet Initiative - Presentations done at the Architecture Workshop on 9 June 2010\
• The Future, Federated Internet and the Need for Designing a Sustainable Ecosystem for Future Applications – A Position Paper
• Geant - Architecture Considerations for Federated Backbone Networks Study

Conferences

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

Foundations

• Free Software Foundation
• Open Web Foundation
• The European Future Internet Initiative