Open Data Definition The Open Data Definition is a forthcoming draft format designed to be an extremely simple method for moving your data from one social network to another, subscribing to a user's profile like a kind of social RSS feed, or streaming updates between two or more services.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 9:03 AM on April 20, 2008

Explode 2 Part search engine (here's people interested in MetaFilter) and part distributed social network (here's my friends). Find people, add them to your friends, send them messages and order them into collections.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 12:03 PM on May 9, 2007

Explode! The go-anywhere social network. Add people as a friend no matter what network they're on.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 8:01 AM on February 20, 2007

Rum and Monkey My puerile satire site has been around for almost five years, but was today reborn as a blog. It's not big, it's not clever, but maybe someone will think of it as a kind of guilty pleasure.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 9:53 PM on December 18, 2006

Elgg Spaces Create your own social networking site, for free, with no programming or server administration. Each site contains blogs, embedded files, podcasting, cross-site tagging, RSS aggregator and a tag-enabled profile. Each item has access restrictions and very granular outgoing RSS. Based on the open source Elgg engine.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 9:22 AM on November 8, 2006

The James Martin Institute World Forum 2006 Lots of webcasts about lifespan longevity and redefining what it means to be human, including one featuring the world's first cyborg. The conference is ongoing, so it maybe worth checking back for later webcasts. Not technically my project, but close enough to my job to potentially be considered a self-link in the blue: I did the back-end CMS for the website.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 9:00 AM on March 15, 2006

Elgg Elgg is an open source Learning Landscape (PDF) system that allows individuals at an institution to collaborate and learn using Web 2.0 tools - basically stuff that people have been using to create their own digital identities and share ideas for years. Weblogging, podcasting/videocasting, social networking and file repositories are all features, plus a whole bunch of XML feeds (currently RSS and FOAF). Users can either sign up at the hosted site or install their own system.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller at 4:05 AM on November 22, 2005