OpenAutonomy
| Original author(s) | Jeff Disher |
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| Developer(s) | Open Autonomy Inc. |
| Stable release | r210 (reference implementation)
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| Written in | PHP (reference implementation)[1] |
| Type | Social network service |
| License | MIT License (reference implementation) |
| Website | openautonomy |
OpenAutonomy is a protocol facilitating decentralized social networking and web service. Although the social networking site is still in its infancy, the idea is to build a distributed, federated, extensible web platform to compete with the current "walled gardens" approach. The idea is to break the boundaries between services/servers and web/native and allowing everything to inter-operate with an emphasis on: extensibility, innovation, privacy, and freedom.
OpenAutonomy Applications/Use-Cases
OpenAutonomy currently has innate applications which lend themselves to several use-cases where users are in full control of their content with the use of trust groups: a social networking application , an event application which is used to announce events and add photos from those events which can then be shared, a personal cloud storage of 5 gigabytes with the option of file collaboration, a messaging system to message other users and the ability to add personal and general RSS feeds catering to a user's own interests from anywhere on the web for a user's own as well as potentially collaborative shared use.
Anyone can run an OpenAutonomy server or extend the capabilities of existing servers and applications by defining their own application protocols.[2]
See Also
References
- ^ "OpenAutonomy Reference Implementation (SourceForge)". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
- ^ "OpenAutonomy Technical Overview" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-30.
External links
- Open Autonomy Inc. (runs the reference implementation)
- OpenAutonomy PHP server and related tools on SF.net (includes reference implementation code)