PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network

prostoalex writes "When Orkut, LinkedIn, Friendster, Zaibatsu and Tribe.net just don't cut it, meet PeopleAggregator, an open-source, PHP-written, FOAF-based social network. There's the site and there's the source in case you decide to launch your own. I found out about PeopleAggregator reading this interview with Mark Canter on Read/Write Web today." I wish such sites would provide profile-conversion tools to encourage jumping ship from one to another.

What's the point ?

[Sonic McTails]

Even though opensource is a good thing, why make it so anyone can install it. If it's not certizilied, it's not going to make many hits or matchs. If it was two people like over /. or a message board, that would be different because you aren't looking for a stranger.

XFN

[cgranade]

An open-source social protocol already exists... not a site, but an XML protocol for marking links as having a social significance. The recently announced Nvu [easyconnect.fr] supports links with XFN [gmpg.org] information. I would love to see if this network supports XFN, so that it could tie into other XFN-compliant networks and sites.

Friendster and open source

[Anonymous Coward]

A bit OT, but while the friendster code may not be open, sure looks like they love it on the backend

http://www.friendster.com/jobs/

They even use an acronymn, LAMP, to refer to Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/PERL/Python

Re:XFN

[pldms]

FOAF [foaf-project.org] (which PeopleAggregator uses, as do many other sites) and it's relation to XFN are discussed here [gmpg.org], and in depth by Leigh Dodds [ldodds.com]. It would be pretty hard to make something like PeopleAggregator using XFN since it's concerned with typing relations, not describing people. FOAF and XFN don't really compete. (btw, FOAF came first)

Re:What is FOAF

[Gorilla with a Priap]

Friend of a Friend

Re:the wonders of PHP:

[TardisX]

Errr, surely rule #1 is to make sure you allow more mysql processes than maximum apache children?

Is it a common php 'admin' mindset to just hide errors rather than make sure they don't happen in the first place?

Update

[spellraiser]

Damn.

20:21 Central
While we scramble behind the scenes to put things back together, we'll share the slashdot love and link to other sites where you can get more information about FOAF.

FOAF Info:

• rdfweb.org [rdfweb.org]
• foaf-project.org [foaf-project.org]
• The FOAF FAQ (from rdfweb) [rdfweb.org]

FOAF Tools:

• FOAF-A-Matic [ldodds.com]
• FOAFnaut [foafnaut.org] (needs SVG plugin)
• FOAF Explorer [mfd-consult.dk]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. [imdb.com]

19:14 Central
Oh hell. We got slashdotted. And the main site wasn't even running the current code revision. Back in a bit.