A distributed social network traditionally refers to an internet social network that is decentralized and distributed across different providers, with emphasis on portability and interoperability. It contrasts with social network aggregation services, which are used to manage accounts and activities across multiple discrete social networks.

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  • A distributed social network traditionally refers to an internet social network that is decentralized and distributed across different providers, with emphasis on portability and interoperability. It contrasts with social network aggregation services, which are used to manage accounts and activities across multiple discrete social networks. Open standards such as OAuth authorization, OpenID authentication, XRD metadata discovery, the Portable Contacts protocol, OpenSocial widget APIs, microformats like XFN and hCard, and Atom web feeds—increasingly referred to together as the Open Stack—are often cited as enabling technologies for distributed social networking. Projects developing open-source implementations of distributed social networking concepts include The DiSo Project, NoseRub, the So(m)mer Address Book, the Appleseed Project, and Daisycha. in. A few social networking service providers have used the term more broadly to describe provider-specific services that are distributable across different websites, typically through added widgets or plug-ins. Through the add-ons, the social network functionality is implemented on users' websites. Such social network services include YouChoose. net and Redanyway.
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  • A distributed social network traditionally refers to an internet social network that is decentralized and distributed across different providers, with emphasis on portability and interoperability. It contrasts with social network aggregation services, which are used to manage accounts and activities across multiple discrete social networks.
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  • Distributed social network
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