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Google OpenSocial has competition

http://noserub.com

NoseRub is a protocol. Applications with the NoseRub protocol keep information about profile data for each of the contacts. These profiles get synchronised between the applications/social networks ... and can be used by any other NoseRub service.

NoseRub uses already available standards like OpenID, RSS and FOAF to provide the goal of having a truely decentralised social network.

How do I own my data?

Decentralised means, that people may be able to store their social network on their own server and those servers to interact and synchronize automatically. One company doesn't own your data and social network anymore, you own and control it.

We understand NoseRub not only as an application, like what is running on Identoo.com and which everyone can download and install on their own servers. We want even more freedom for the people who want to use NoseRub.

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NoseRub is a German company.

About Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based social network applications, developed by Google. Applications implementing the OpenSocial APIs will be interoperable with any social network system that supports them,

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.

More:
  • http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opensocial
  • OpenSocial API docs.
Reportedly behind the OpenSocial project is open source web developer Brad Fitzpatrick, best known as the creator of the virtual community website LiveJournal.
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  1. Saikat12:55 AM

    Hello Nikhil,
    Saikat from Citipals here.
    Read your blog and really liked it. Its a very interesting one indeed. I see that you are interested in stuff that pertains to Indian startups and entrepreneur ventures.
    Citipals is a website that caters specifically to Indian audiences and contains information on lifestyle entities such as restaurants, bars, theatres and of course movies in cities like Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata( Plan to extend the cities covered to many others in the near future).
    We also enlist the new releases in Bollywood and Hollywood that are screened across the country.
    Our objective behind emailing is to request you to post a story on the venture and effort, that specifically caters to the Indian audience.


    We have created a new and interesting feature called MovieMatch. MovieMatch is a place where you can rate popular Bollywood and Hollywood movies. This feature enables you to compare your taste with your friends and at the same time, its also a great platform to make your opinion known to people.
    We have created a facebook app for MovieMatch as well where facebook users can play MovieMatch.

    ou can read our latest press release on a facebook app by us at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/moviematch-new-facebook-app-for-indians.html
    We also tried something sarcastically funny in the recent past and you can read a bit about it at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/social-networks-mania_07.html ( this is a small jscript animation slideshow which shows what will happen if social networks become "really open")
    Further, you can read out press release on MovieMatch- a small game which lets you and your friends share ratings and opinion on a set of hit bollywood and hollywood movies; both blockbusters and new releases at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/moviematch-compare-your-tastes-in.html
    Press release for MovieMatch is posted at http://blog.citipals.com/2007/11/answer-to-users-quest-for-trusted.html

    I hope that you will like the matter that we have gathered at citipals.
    Looking forward to your reply.

    PS: If you like the website, but due to some reason, are unable to post a story/article or our press release on our website, do let us know. We would love to have you as a contributing user on our website. citipals ensures that users have fun while sharing things that interests them.

    Thanks,
    Saikat

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