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foursquare for android

foursquare for android was released to the Market today.  I helped out a very little bit on this project, and have been testing since early builds.  It’s totally awesome, and you should all go buy Android devices so that you can run this app.

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Red Hat ships open source MySpace++ clone

Red Hat is looking at Social Networking as desktop environment level software, which is interesting. I’m not that excited about that part, though. This also involves a Java/Hibernate/JBoss Open Source social networking server, which is meant to be extesnible and horizontally scalable and/or clusterable. This could be an interesting platform for neat little bits of social networking functionality which may not have the pull to create a critical mass community on their own.

Cory Doctorow:
Red Hat has developed a new MySpace like site called Mugshot — but it’s open source. I saw a short demo of Mugshot this morning at the Red Hat Summit in Nashville and it was pretty hot; they nicked the best stuff out of all the social networking sites and put them together in an open codebase.

The Mugshot client application is built with a special cross-platform code library developed in C with GLib and GObject. For network communication, Mugshot uses the open XMPP protocol also used by Jabber and Google Talk. The current version of Mugshot is built with Loudmouth, a GLib-based XMPP implementation developed by Imendio. The Linux version of the Mugshot client user interface is built with GTK and uses GConf for storing configuration data, which means it is closely aligned with the GNOME desktop environment. The Linux version uses D-Bus for interprocess communication, and will provide Firefox integration.

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(Thanks, Segphault!)

Originally from Boing Boing by mark@boingboing.net reBlogged by micah to social_networks work open_source on May 31, 2006, 4:44PM

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Reblog 2.0 Beta 1 released

It took a little bit of poking around in the forum archives, and finally setting REBLOG_REFEED_ROOT_PATH in my config.xml, but my refeed install now seems to be working.

A fresh update to Reblog 2.0 has been released. Be first on your block to install it from http://reblog.org/#download.

This release includes a raft of enhancements, including better documentation for plug-in developers, slightly modified tag behavior that makes it easier to navigate your extensiv feed collection, experimental plug-ins for automatically publishing entries to WordPress, TypePad, Blogger and Del.icio.us accounts, and minor usability improvements too numerous to mention.

This BETA version has been extensively tested, and is recommended for most users. (1 comments)

Originally from SourceForge.net: SF.net Project News: reblog (including full news text) by migurski@users.sourceforge.net (Michal Migurski) reBlogged by micah to reblog php software on Feb 8, 2006, 10:20AM