Sonar - Project Draft
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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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Principles
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Protocols/Technologies
- GML, KML - Geography Markup Languages
- Webfinger: Personal Web Discovery - Webfinger allows email addresses to be used as identifiers for persons as well letting to attach public metadata to them.
• API Authorization: <a href="http://http://oauth.net/">OAuth</a> - An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
• Decentrilized Microblogging: <a href="http://microformats.org/">Microformats</a> - 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: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">PubSubHubbub Protocol</a> - A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
• : <a href="http://activitystrea.ms/">Activity Streams</a> - a format for syndicating social activities around the web.
OpenID http://openid.net/
OpenSocial http://www.opensocial.org/
Architecture
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Related Endeavors
Projects/Softwares
- 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.
