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| StatusNet are the creators of an open-source microblogging platform that powers Identica amongst other microblogging websites. | |
| OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near real time. | |
| Evan Prodromou is the founder and CEO of StatusNet Inc., and has been developing open-source software for over 10 years. | |
| Jon Phillips is a developer for StatusNet, creator of Fabricatorz, and long-time open-source and free-culture advocate. | |
| Brion Vibber is senior architect at StatusNet, and was previously lead developer for MediaWiki, the software that powers the Wikipedia. | |
| Zach Copley is a senior software developer at StatusNet, and is also manages developer relations for the company. | |
| James Walker works at StatusNet as a software services architect, and is a long-time Drupal developer. | |
| Automattic is the blog software company behind WordPress.com, BuddyPress, Gravatar, PollDaddy and more. | |
| Beau Lebens works with Automattic Inc., and previously created FeedBlendr feed remixer and the MyBabyOurBaby online scrapbook. | |
| FooCorp is the company behind Libre.fm, a music sharing service for freely-licensed material, and daisychain, a spatial social network. | |
| GNU Social is a decentralised free software social networking system, written in PHP. | |
| Matt Lee is the founder of FooCorp, creators of the Libre.fm music sharing service, and developer of GNU Social. | |
| Rob Myers is communications officer with FooCorp, a member of the GNU Social team, and chief voluntary webmaster for the gnu.org. | |
| Google is a multinational Internet search and advertising technologies corporation. | |
| Chris Messina works as open web advocate with Google, and is known for co-creating BarCamp and the Spread Firefox campaign. | |
| Joseph Smarr is a social web engineer with Google, former CTO of Plaxo, and co-author of the "Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web". | |
| Brett Slatkin is a software engineer on the Google App Engine team and is co-creator of the PubSubHubbub protocol. | |
| Diaspora* is a forthcoming open-source personal web system intended to be part of a distributed, decentralised social networking architecture. | |
| Daniel Grippi is a computer science student at New York University and a member of the Diaspora* project team. | |
| Maxwell Salzberg is a student at New York University and a member of the Diaspora* project team. | |
| Raphael Sofaer is a student at New York University and a member of the Diaspora* project team. | |
| Ilya Zhitomirskiy is a maths student at New York University and a member of the Diaspora* project team. | |
| Noserub is a decentralised social network that allows users to own their own data and that can act as a profile aggregation service. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Yahoo! is a computer software and web search engine company founded in 1995. | |
| No representative available. | |
| DiSo is a initiative to build a distributed social network architecture using microformats, OpenID, OAuth and other building blocks. | |
| Steve Ivy, Chris Messina and Tantek �elik are also members of this project. | |
| Elgg is an open-source social networking engine that was initially aimed at educational and learning groups, but has now entered general use. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Appleseed is an effort to create open-source social networking software that is based on a distributed model. | |
| Michael Chisari is an open-source developer and has been lead developer for the Appleseed project since 2004. | |
| Crabgrass is a free web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organising. | |
| Elijah Saxon is a member of the Riseup Collective and is co-manager of the Crabgrass project. | |
| AROUNDme from Barnraiser is an open-source collaboration server system for creating collaborative social spaces on the Web. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Webfinger is a protocol for sharing information about people and discovering things about friends, without having to remember various URLs. | |
| Blaine Cook is a member of Osmosoft, co-creator of Webfinger, and former lead developer with Twitter. | |
| Vodafone is a multinational telecommunications operator that provides both landline and mobile services. | |
| OneSocialWeb is a free and open decentralised social networking platform, based on XMPP, and developed by the Vodafone R&D group. | |
| Daniel Appelquist works with Vodafone R&D, is co-chair of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group, and is a member of the W3C TAG. | |
| Dreamwidth Studios is an open-source social networking, content management and personal publishing platform that was forked from LiveJournal. | |
| Mark Smith is co-founder and chief technologist with Dreamwidth Studios, and previously worked as a developer with LiveJournal and Six Apart. | |
| Facebook is the world's largest social networking site with over 400 million active users. | |
| Open Graph Protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in the Facebook social graph. | |
| Dave Recordon works at Facebook, where he developed the Open Graph Protocol, and he previously co-developed OpenID and worked with Six Apart. | |
| FOAF, or Friend of a Friend, is a Semantic Web vocabulary for describing people's profiles and their social connections. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. | |
| No representative available. | |
| OpenMicroBlogger is an mplementation of the OpenMicroBlogging.org specification for site-to-site microblogging. | |
| Brian Hendrickson is the creator of OpenMicroBlogger, the Structal PHP framework, and runs the Megapump consultancy company. | |
| XMPP is a standards foundation that supports the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol for presence, messaging, and real-time collaboration and communications. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Six Apart is the creator of the Movable Type blog system, the TypePad blog hosting service, Vox, and is the former owner of LiveJournal. | |
| Martin Atkins is a software engineer at Six Apart, and is co-author of the ActivityStrea.ms specification. | |
| Steve Ivy is a web developer and standards advocate with Six Apart, and co-founded the DiSo project. | |
| ActivityStrea.ms is a format for syndicating social activities around the Web. | |
| Martin Atkins, Dave Recordon and Chris Messina are also members of this project. | |
| Cliqset is a stream-reading tool that amalgamates content from multiple social websites. | |
| Darren Bounds is CEO and co-founder of Cliqset, and is an open web advocate. | |
| BuddyCloud is a social location service with a variety of open-source clients for bookmarking places automatically once they've been visited previously. | |
| Tuomas Koski is a developer with the BuddyCloud project and is a member of the XMPP standards foundation. | |
| Simon Tennant is founder and CEO of BuddyCloud, and has interests in mobile location sharing and reputation systems in social applications. | |
| Social Jargon is an initiative that will enable people to be casually precise in a world where we want to write less but mean more. | |
| Ward Cunningham is CTO with AboutUs, devised the first wiki, and is a pioneer in design patterns and extreme programming. | |
| Superfeedr provides real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web developers. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Mozilla is an open-source project providing web browsers, e-mail clients, chat systems and more. | |
| Dan Mills is a member of the Mozilla project and was lead engineer of Weave, now Firefox Sync. | |
| Paul Osman is a senior web developer with the Mozilla foundation and is an open web advocate. | |
| Austin King is a web developer with Mozilla, and has worked with Amazon.com and RealNetworks. | |
| Tumblr is a publishing platform that allows sharing of posts, multimedia, etc., and enables the reblogging of interesting items. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Posterous is a blogging platform that allows sites to be created by simply e-mailing content items to a single address. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Falcon is a personal publishing, syndicating, tweeting and updating web application, with an algorithmically reversible personal URL shortener called Whistle. | |
| Tantek Celik is a key advocate of microformats, was chief technologist with Technorati, and has edited many CSS specifications. | |
| Personal Data Store is a set of software components which provides a personal data store and modular personal applications. | |
| Joseph Boyle works on the Personal Data Store project and co-organised the recent Big Data Workshop. | |
| Kaliya Hamlin works on open standards for user-centric identity, and co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop series. | |
| SMOB is a Semantic Web application for semantic microblogging, that combines a distributed hub-based architecture with a tag-to-concept mapping assistant. | |
| John Breslin is a member of this project. | |
| NUI Galway is a university in Ireland that is home to DERI, the world's largest Semantic Web research institute. | |
| SIOC is a framework for interlinking online community sites using Semantic Web technologies, by defining structures common to most social websites. | |
| John Breslin is a lecturer at NUI Galway, researching SIOC and the Social Semantic Web, and is co-founder of the boards.ie forum community site. | |
| Chi.mp is a free domain and website service for storing your content and managing your personal identity. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Geoloqi is an open-source website and mobile application for securely sharing location data with GPS and SMS. | |
| Aaron Parecki is the co-founder of Geoloqi, and is also CIO at quicksilverleads.com, a real-estate solutions website. | |
| Don Park is a developer with Geoloqi, and has written a variety of social networking utilities for FOAF and XFN. | |
| Naver is Korea's main search portal, operated by NHN Corporation. | |
| Soon-Son Kwon is a general manager at NHN, and founder of KDLP, Korea's main open source community. | |
| Echo allows publishers to quickly embed real-time streams of Digg bookmarks, Facebook updates, tweets, comments and more. | |
| No representative available. | |
| versionvega is a peer-to-peer general purpose network for applications far beyond file sharing. | |
| Markus Sabadello is the creator of @versionvega, and has interests in identity, privacy and peer-to-peer networks. | |
| Lorea is a project to create secure social cybernetic systems, in which human networks will be simultaneously represented in a virtual shared world. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Microsoft is a multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a variety of computing products and services. | |
| Rob Dolin is a program manager for Windows Live at Microsoft, and owner of Wuxx Events, a calendar of local Seattle events. | |
| studiVZ is a German social networking platform for students, in particular for college and university students in Europe. | |
| Sebastian Galonska is a senior platform developer with studiVZ, and developer advocate with VZnet Netzwerke. | |
| Rapportive is a browser extension that replaces ads in Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, for whoever you're corresponding with. | |
| No representative available. | |
| Social Hives are the creators of the Hivemaps and Community ID projects for supporting NGOs and green initiatives. | |
| Joe Johnston is the founder of Social Hive and has interests in the democratisation of information and the greater movement of social evolution through technology. | |
| Janrain provides a user management platform for the social web, allowing users to navigate through multiple web properties using their signon mechanism of choice. | |
| Ivan Pulleyn is a software engineer with Janrain, and previously worked at a variety of companies including Alexa and Desktop.com. | |
| Cordance is a developer and provider of digital addressing technology, enabling a layer of trusted identity and data sharing services. | |
| Drummond Reed is co-founder and director of Cordance, a founding board member of OpenID, and co-chairs the XRI and XDI technical committees for OASIS. | |
| Clearspring is a provider of social distribution services connecting online publishers and advertisers to audiences on the social web. | |
| No representative available. | |
| AddThis is a popular bookmarking and sharing widget used on over a million websites. | |
| No representative available. |