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Comparison of Distributed Social Network Applications

This is a list comparing a number of distributed social network applications.

Project Name Features License Protocols Privacy Support Federation (with other applications or services) Version/Maturity
6d Blog, media library, addressbook, themeable, private messaging MIT HTTP + REST Addressbook to send posts to either individuals or groups. not yet alpha
Ampify Trust-based search, Public Domain HTTPS, Ampify Messaging Protocol Yes. Provides fine grained privacy control through object capability security and transport layer encryption. Yes. Provides an application framework similar to Google App Engine. And a web-hook style sensor network for easy integration with other platforms. development
Appleseed User: Photos, Journals(+RSS), Messaging, Groups, Privacy controls, Friend "Circles", Status Updates, Newsfeeds Internal: Component-based MVC, i18n, Theming. Admin: Node Control, Access Control, One-Click Upgrades GPLv2 QuickSocial[1] Yes, friend circles used to categorize friends and restrict/allow access Internally, others easily added (plugin architecture) beta, in use
buddycloud location, messaging, photo/video sharing Apache2.0 XMPP
OStatus
Yes in development?
Crabgrass focus on collaboration within and between groups. Wikis, task lists, asset management, photo galleries, decision making. Primary emphasis is on privacy. AGPLv3 none? Simple permissions no active use
Diaspora microblogging
photo sharing
'aspects'- friend management
AGPL3.0 Roadmap Roadmap: 'Near Future': 'Services Integration' pre-alpha
Duuit! search engine, microblogging, status, email, photos, videos, blogs, webpages, XMPP chat, video chat, collaborative drawing, office document, presentation and spreadsheet creation and editing, feed reader, profiles, files, games, gifts, groups, mood, privacy controls, customizable interface, opensimulator 3d environment (alpha testers only) GPLv2 FOAF, XMPP, opensocial, OAuth push/pull, OStatus (next release), scrobbling, RSS/Atom, opendd, PubSubHubbub, email, and irc excellent, acl, granular, profile, avatar, content XMPP, OStatus in testing- due in next release beta, in use
Friend2Friend Strong encryption, XML for all data exchange, Data is digitally signed LGPL Connect to known individuals. alpha
Friendika Rich profiles, networking groups (similar to Diaspora aspects), community/group/celebrity pages, richtext status (not specifically length limited), photo albums, youtube share, location, like/dislike, multiple profiles w/assignment to specific friends, single sign on to post directly to friend's profiles on co-operating systems. Communications encryption. Fans and one-way relationships. Local and global directory services. Ability to restrict connection endpoints for corporate and EDU (primarily k-12) or other environments requiring extreme privacy. BSD OStatus (Webfinger/lrdd, Atom, activitystrea.ms, salmon, PubSubHubbub), OpenID, dfrn, rino yes - extensive yes stable/production
GNU Social AGPLv3 OStatus yes
Jappix XMPP client + Microblogging AGPL XMPP excellent: based on presence authorizations production
Knowee OpenID Signup
Activity Stream import and export
Contact import from Web 2.0 services via XFN and FOAF
Automatically updated address book from remote data sources
Consolidated profile with RDF/FOAF export
Personal SPARQL API
W3C OpenID, FOAF alpha
Kopal OpenID Core, Multiple profiles MIT OpenID
Kopal Feed
Kopal Connect
alpha
Lorea Profiles, microblogging, streams, groups, plugins, group mailing lists, tasks, calendar, subgroups, tagclouds GPL OpenID, activitystrea.ms, PubSubHubbub, FOAF+ssl
working on: OStatus (60% production), XMPP/psyc (50% development), rdf+sparql (10% development)
excellent production
Movim XMPP client + Microblogging AGPLv3 XMPP development
Mr. Privacy SMTP
IMAP
yes yes
Noosfero Social Networking (tree entities: persons, communities and organizations)
CMS: folders, articles, RSS, image and file upload.
Blog and commentary notifications.
e-Portfolio (individuals & groups)
Sharing Interests
Thematic Discussion
Events Agenda
Services and Products Display Window
tagging, blocks(“widgets”), RSS import, categories, adding custom themes, news portal
AGPLv3 Privacy support: Users can put their profiles (or communities) as private and them only their friends (or members) can see it under consideration? active use
ObjectCloud customization, flexible hosting, security, application platform SimPL 2.0 OpenID, Particle yes Alpha, active development
OneSocialWeb Microblogging Apache2 XMPP
XMPP extensions[2]
yes yes Active developer community, features being added...
OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS) Profile Management, Blogs, Wikis, Address Books, Calendars, Feed Aggregation, Discussion Forums (includes NNTP support), File Servers (WebDAV based Briefcase). Dual (Comercial and GPL for Open Source Edition) WebID Protocol, Webfinger, OpenID, OAuth, HTTP, SPARQL, Atom Publishing, PubSubHubbub, Semantic Pingback, OpenSocial, Social Graph API, Portable Contacts. WebID Yes Active use
OpenMicroBlogger User-toggleable "apps" to add/remove functionality. RSSCloud and partial OStatus (PubSubHubbub) federation as well as Open Microblogging 0.1. Local follow/unfollow. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr integration. (partial) Twitter API support. Fully Restful design, user interface consumes Rest API. MIT Open Microblogging 0.1, RSSCloud, (partial) OStatus (PubSubHubbub) yes yes alpha
ownCloud Cloudstorage and plugins for Photos, Media, RSS and more AGPLv3 WebDAV, Open Collaboration Services yes ver. 1.0
Project Danube 1) Sharing personal data with companies/organizations
2) Sharing personal data with "friends"
3) Use of personal data for "personal applications"
TBD, likely Eclipse or Apache OStatus, OAuth 2.0, Webfinger, hCard, Portable Contacts, XRI, XDI, PubSubHubbub, Salmon yes (StatusNet and Cliqset, among others) development
Project Nori OStatus, OAuth, Portable Contacts, Webfinger, and other open protocols yes early alpha
psyced profiles
chat
microblogging
GPLver2
MIT
PSYC, Jabber™/XMPP, IRC, TELNET, HTTP, Applet, SMTP, WAP, XML, RSS
RSSN private messaging
groups
RSSN concept
SMOB Microblogging FOAF no production
Socialriver GPL
AGPL
OStatus, OpenID
will add support for OAuth
Private Messaging
Privacy Controls
yes
Socknet Provider- FoolishMortal.org profiles, messaging, enables internet content sharing Socknet, OpenID no yes Beta
StatusNet microblogging AGPLv3 OStatus
OpenID
FOAF
available for sites, planned for accounts and posts Yes 0.9 (Active use)
Thimbl microblogging Finger, SSH planned for future development
Weestit XMPP
HTTP
OStatus
SMTP
POP
yes planned alpha planned Nov.20 2010

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