Federated Social Web

Currently most online communities (or social networks) uses social networking platforms which don't provide any interoperability with other online communities. Federated Social Web initiative works on technologies to help us bridge those gaps and provide smooth experience in participating in many online communities'. As for today some open source platforms start providing features for such networking, to mention few:

• Elgg
• Drupal
• BuddyPress
• ...

potential major P2P Foundation federation peers

• Open Knowledge Foundation

Directory

See

• Projects
• Organisations

More Information

• The federated social web is a wiki for people working on federated social web software and protocols. It was originally made to support the Federated Social Web Summit 2010 but has been expanded to support the summit group as well as future collaborators.

• list of software that's implementing or will implement federated social web technology, http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Software

• protocol, http://ostatus.org/