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 - Privacy-Preserving P2P Social Networks. Academic project.
OneSocialWeb - free, open, and decentralized social networking platform.
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.
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Pace Project, Diki

Multidimensional federated network platforms:

Lorea - Lorea is a project to create secure social cybernetic systems, in which human networks will become simultaneusly represented on a virtual shared world. Mycelia.
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:

Facebook Places - Facebook's new mobile application that allows users to - "Share Where You Are", "Connect With Friends Nearby", "Find Local Deals".
Google Latitude - A location-aware mobile application developed by Google. Via user's Google Account, the mobile phone location is mapped on Google Maps. Users can share their own location or see nearby friends and meet up.
FourSquare - location-based social networking service.
Gowalla - location-based social networking service.
Geoloqi - Geoloqi is a private, real-time mobile and web platform for securely sharing location data, with features such as Geonotes, proximal notification, and sharing real-time GPS maps with friends. The API.
BuddyCloud - A distributed social network and a location based microblogging service. Buddycloud is mainly about two things: user generated channels and places.

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/mobile agents:

MobiSoft Project - A Generic Agent-based Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for
FacebookAgent –An Agent-Enhanced Social(Mobile)Network Application.
Aglets - A Java based mobile agent platform and library for building mobile agents based applications.

Decentralized Social Network Protocols/Common APIs:

Buddycloud channels - Tools to build your own federated social network.
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.
OpenSocial - A set of common APIs for web-based social network applications (developed by Google, MySpace and a number of other social networks).
Elgg - A social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications.

XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Location Query - XMPP protocol extension for querying a compliant server or service for geographical location of an entity.

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 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:

Salmon - Salmon aims to define a standard protocol for comments and annotations to swim upstream to original update sources -- and spawn more commentary in a virtuous cycle. It's open, decentralized, abuse resistant, and user centric.
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:

Personal Data Stores:

Project Danube - Open-Source Sofware for Identity & Personal Data Services. Open-source project offering software for identity and personal data services on the Internet.
Higgins - Personal Data Stores. Dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data.

PeerSon - Privacy-Preserving P2P Social Networks.
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