Related ICT Endeavours

Networks/Platforms/Softwares

Federated/Decentralized/Peer-to-Peer Networks:

StatusNet - Free Software Federated Microblogging Platform (e.g. Twitter). ["http://gitorious.org/StatusNet source codes].
GNU Social - A free software that runs decentralized social networks. source codes.
Diaspora - A free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service.
PeerSon -P2P infrastructure for social networks. Academic project.
Friendika - P2P Social Network.
NoseRub - P2P Social Network.
DiSo - An initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web. Building Wordpress plugins
PeerBook - P2P Social Network. Decentralized alternative to Facebook. Student project.

Multidimensional federated network platforms:

GEANT - GÉANT is the pan-European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.
EFII - The European Future Internet Initiative. Founded by 16 of the leading ICT companies in Europe and their main ambition is that a new approach is taken to addressing the challenges of the Future Internet in Europe.

Location based social networks:

Augmented reality networks:

Layar - Augmented reality browser. Data in the browser comes in the form of layers. Layers are developed and maintained by third-parties using a free API.
AlterGeo - Augmented reality browser, social network.

Multi-agent systems:

Social-mobile Applications.

Decentralized Social Network Protocols/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).
OpenSocialWeb - Draft protocol specifications.
XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.

Decentralized Identity/Personal Web Discovery:

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

Decentralized micro-blogging:

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

Decentralized authentication:

OAuth - An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

Microformats:

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. hCalendar, hCard, XOXO, etc.

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:

[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