NoseRub

A few weeks ago, I did not only delete my Flickr-Account because of the censorship, but also started acting about an idea I went along for a few months now.

One of the most important thing for me at Flickr was my contact page, where I could follow a lot of friends, people I work with, or worked with, or those I find interesting. Suddenly, all that was gone. Sure, I could add the RSS-Feed of every one of them to my feed reader. But why was there no "export my network" functionality? And why did Flickr have the information, but not me?

This is, when I started a Wiki on NoseRub. The domain was registered a few months back, when I thought that this would be a nice name for something that has to do with social networks - I had no further plans back then...

Right now, I'm working on an example application for NoseRub, the first few Milestones a fairly vague, but I'm currently in the middle of Milestone 2.

When I came back from a short holiday in Naples - Italy, Cem pointed me towards this post from Tim Bonnemann and pretty fast I ended up looking through the Social Network Portability Wiki-Page on Microformats.org. And I was thrilled, as I took a few moments during my holiday to think about Im- and Exporting data from and to NoseRub: FOAF and hCard+XFN already have anything there is needed.

This was also the time for me to open up this blog. I wanted to introduce NoseRub to a larger community on BarCamp Cologne 2 on August 18th & 19th. But I think it's about time to share and discuss a bit more already.

After the weekend, I will have a first version in the SVN-Repository of my CakePHP example implementation. I'm not sure how far I will have gotten then, but I will bring it up anyway. I still think, that I can bring up a first alpha version of NoseRub online for BarCamp Cologne 2. Until then, I will keep you posted here.

In the meanwhile, I will think on how to participate at the SocialNetworkDevCamp in Richmond, CA...