Eamonn Faherty

@padday put together a presentation on real life social networks and the problems they bring to the current online offerings.

It is a very interesting read! It talks about the seperation of friends that exists offline and how the current online social networks do not support them. It points out some very obvious shortfalls. It kind of reminds me of the IRC days where we had different channels for different groups. This wasn’t really transfered online. I cannot wait to see what @Google do with their new offering!

BTW, thanks to @robpenner for the retweet. That is how I found this!

Wow!

Google have released an update to the apps sdk! They are now supporting XMPP! XMPP seems to be the next biggest thing on the net! Now is the time to get behind it! Anyone interested in starting an open source social networking project get in touch with me!

I have been reading about this recently and it seems really interesting. Here is an article outlining the archtecture for the php implementation.

With Shindig, it looks like you could have something like iGoogle running pretty quickly!

I am doing it! I am releasing my Pligg mod to get Twitter login working. I have stuck to the smarty way where possible (excluding errors :p). It is my first hack so bear with me. There are instructions included in the attached zip file but I would really suggest you read the following:

OAuth getting started guide
Twitter OAuth FAQ

Credits to Jaisen Mathai for his Twitter-async classes.