A social network site is a website where we share some common interest with other people. That interest can be your personal life (Facebook), your professional career (LinkedIn), your sport, your hobby, or just a single conference (Picnic Network).
All these networks have one thing in common: they are walled gardens, islands that force their users [...]
We are proposing a range of existing technologies to enable the federation of social networks. Some are quite new, some are well established. Here I give a short overview of the technologies and how to work together in creating a personal network.
We are not the only ones interested in integrating our content. So far, we’ve [...]