[Freedombox-discuss] Newebe, a distributed social network based on self-hosting

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 18 January 2012 16:35, Frank <gelnior at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am here to talk you about a project sharing the Freedombox goals while
> being compatible with it. Its name is Newebe. It is a distributed social
> network based on self hosting. As you understand, each Newebe user owns its
> instance of Newebe. The way it works is simple : an instance is located
> behind an URI which serves as the descriptor of a contact. Each Newebe node
> is connected directly to its contact via this URI : no third party is
> involved. About the code, Newebe is a free software based on other free
> softwares, so you know what it do. It has been tested on ARM Debian and
> works fine with it.
> Moreover, every data stored inside Newebe are accessible through a REST API.
> That means you can connect home made tools to your Newebe to reuse or
> analyze your personal data : by centralizing your data "at home", Newebe
> allows more than preserving privacy.
>
> About the project situation, actually the software works well but its
> security is far from be good. Once this problem will be solved we would be
> glad to be part of the freedombox software list.
>
> Website : https://github.com/newebe
> Code : https://github.com/gelnior/newebe
> Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/newebe
>
> Thank you for your attention,

Looks like a cool project.  Identity as a URL is the the way to go I
think, facebook are slowly taking over the social web with this
strategy.  However there's a group of people that evangelize email
address is the only identity.  It sometimes turns into a bit of a
religious war :)

Freedombox will hopefully have a BIG advantage of people hosting their
own web server.

You may want to look at the foafpress project which is along the same lines?

http://magnus.13mm.de/foaf.html

I'm thinking about how to store social data in couchDB too and provide
a rest API, that seems like a cool idea.  I think json-ld is the way
to go.

How are you getting on with tornado and backbone?

>
> Frank
>
> PS : Any advice/remark/audit/contribution about Newebe is welcome :).
>
>
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