Fwd: Re: [diso-project] Re: Announcing a "distributed social network" project.

[Andrew Wetzel]

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Subject:	Re: [diso-project] Re: Announcing a "distributed social network" project.
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:16:34 -0600
From:	Andrew Wetzel <andw...@gmail.com>
To:	diso-p...@googlegroups.com

Vikrant -

This sounds like Noserub: http://noserub.com/

Differences? Or do great minds think alike? :-)

Andrew Wetzel
http://hi.im/CircleReader

On 2/26/2010 4:19 AM, Vikrant Chaudhary wrote:
> No you didn't get the picture. If a user owns a domain and some server
> space, he may install Kopal on his domain, say example.net. Now, that
> user can have his social profile on his home domain like example.net/
> profile/
> Kopal also defines a set of protocols that specifies about how two
> social profile that are completely independent, talk to each other,
> for example writing comments, adding as friend and all that social-
> networking stuff.
> It uses public-key cryptography for verification, OpenID for
> authentication and Yadis/XRDS for discovery.
> I have my own Kopal profile at http://vikrant.in.kryzen.net/
> This is just start, so my profile isn't very complete, but it gives
> you the idea.
>
> On Feb 26, 2:16 pm, "Yonas Y."<yona...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Also, it would be much easier to see what Kopal is about with a demo
>> site.
>>
>> - Yonas
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 23:16 -0800, Vikrant Chaudhary wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been developing a protocol on concept of "distributed social
>>> networking". I've named it "Kopal". While Diso and Kopal share the
>>> same goal, the approach is different. While Diso depends on existing
>>> software (like Wordpress), Kopal doesn't depend on any software but
>>> rather only on standards (like OpenID, XRDS, Yadis) which are
>>> integrated within Kopal. (This is all that I could interpret from
>>> http://code.google.com/p/diso/since main site http://diso-project.org/
>>> is down).
>>>        
>>      
>>> I was wondering maybe you could review my project an provide some
>>> valuable comments. And I could learn the differences within these two
>>> projects and could help making things better.
>>>        
>>      
>>> Homepage of Kopal is at - http://code.google.com/p/kopal/
>>>        
>>      
>>> - thanks
>>> Vikrant Chaudhary
>>> http://vikrant.co.in/
>>>        
>>
>>      
>