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Great Blog and great conversation around statusnet...

2010-12-01T13:32:00.266+08:00

Great Blog and great conversation around statusnet.

I'm migrating away from facebook and think statusnet is the useful portal.

The major stumbling block I see is more tech support.

Richer forums and a wiki.

I currently use the free single user cloud hosted alternative, but it takes some digging to realize that the plug ins/themes/ etc mentioned in

I'm sorry that you couldn't get the mods y...

2010-06-03T18:52:21.429+08:00

I'm sorry that you couldn't get the mods you wanted. I hope that your project turns out to be successful.

Out of sheer desperation, I signed up at DreamHost...

2010-06-03T14:56:52.116+08:00

Out of sheer desperation, I signed up at DreamHost to try the 1-click install and got the platform up in no time.

The only thing that took a few minutes to figure out was that I needed to go to the MySQL panel to get the name of the local host and make a new user name and password for the database which was created by the 1-click installation.

It turns out that you cannot

Your best bet is to contact SN directly about gett...

2010-06-03T04:54:31.000+08:00

Your best bet is to contact SN directly about getting a deal on hosting and making the modifications you need. They're the experts.

Thanks again. Unlike everyone else, I actually *w...

2010-06-03T04:39:55.497+08:00

Thanks again. Unlike everyone else, I actually *want* to spend money at a really top of the line web hosting firm -- in case my project is a success!

I'll try your suggestion re: mailing list.

Thanks for your help.

Teresa

There are tons of hosting options: Rackspace, A2, ...

2010-06-03T04:31:11.423+08:00

There are tons of hosting options: Rackspace, A2, etc. Dyta Driven will host a community for under $20 a year. That doesn't seem expensive at all.

If you want developers to help you with a deployment and need custom features, you can just join the mailing list and ask. I'm sure you'll get some bids.

I saw that option, but the cost to run a large com...

2010-06-03T03:52:32.005+08:00

I saw that option, but the cost to run a large community is prohibitively expensive, but more importantly, there is no way to customize the features.

Cheers!

Teresa, Status.net will host at yourname.status.n...

2010-06-03T03:32:47.726+08:00

Teresa,

Status.net will host at yourname.status.net if you like. No coding required. Support the developer!
http://status.net/cloud

A2 hosting:
http://www.a2hosting.com/social-networking/statusnet-hosting

From a non-technical perspective: I came across st...

2010-06-03T02:50:32.309+08:00

From a non-technical perspective: I came across status.net a few days ago. Finally, a platform that has true commercial potential!

As a non-programmer, short of using the 1-click DreamHost installation (which I want to avoid at any cost) I need to find someone or negotiate with the company. Furthermore, the support packages offered are not useful to someone who can't write a line

Elgar, StatusNet is promoting OStatus, which is an...

2010-05-28T23:02:51.709+08:00

Elgar, StatusNet is promoting OStatus, which is an open protocol based on PSHB, Webfinger, Salmon, and ActivityStrea.ms. Communication between clients and servers wouldn't depend on StatusNet being the server.
http://ostatus.org/

Social networking is, indeed quite immature, and if you watch the Building 43 interview of OneSocialWeb, you'll see that most people are taking a

From what I understand at this point, the last thi...

2010-05-28T22:39:13.145+08:00

From what I understand at this point, the last thing we need is one particular distributed SNS implementation to dominate.

We need to evolve/coopt distributed SNS protocols to enable many implantations to coexist in such a way that their instances can talk to each other.

Third party applications should be able to collect (willing) users data from arbitrary SNS nodes and add

Wow, comments from the man himself! I couldn't...

2010-05-28T20:49:07.180+08:00

Wow, comments from the man himself! I couldn't ask for a better expert to critique my thoughts.

I didn't say (or even imply, I think), that StatusNet was a bad way to go. Certainly the most core functionality is already there. I just wanted to try to give the best evaluation _I_ could of what's really needed and how far there is to go. As I said in my conclusion, I figure

I absolutely think that the essentials of a social...

2010-05-28T18:27:37.615+08:00

I absolutely think that the essentials of a social network -- creating an identity, establishing relationships and broadcasting activities -- are already part of StatusNet.

Building different kinds of activities into the platform is possible because we have a powerful framework for plugins.

Most important, we've worked out the details of distributed social networking --