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November 6, 2003
Socializer: Peer-to-peer + Social + Location based
Posted by Clay Shirky
IBM has a tool called
Socializer, designed for discovering and connecting to people and services in the same location (taking "same subnet" as a proxy for same location.) In goals, it's far more generalizable than
Trepia, but less grandiose than
JXTA.
From the FAQ:
Socializer allows you to anonymously see the interests of other people in your location before you decide to share any personal information or begin a conversation. It enables you to store and track other people’s information through profiles for later retrieval or forwarding. It also allows you to set your own policies for forwarding your own profile(s). In addition, anyone in the open community can contribute applications to run on top of the Socializer framework.
It's open source (though currently Windows only), and looks like it might be an 80% solution, as a platform for building a number of location-based services on top of.
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1. Jens Alfke on November 17, 2003 6:36 PM writes...
Looks like an attempt to re-invent the ZeroConf protocols (aka Apple's Rendezvous) used by iChat and iTunes. Instead of their own proprietary protocol they could have implemented the open DNS-SD and mDNS protocols or ported Apple's open-source Darwin implementation.
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