Message by Dan Kuck-Alvarez

Israel Vasquez yes this would be a new, though it would be developed on top of Pinax www.pinaxproject.com which is a Django (Python framework) based set of applications for social networking.

Thu May 27, 2010 at 04:11:57 PM EDT permalink [public]

Dan Kuck-Alvarez

Ah, that's a different story. I'm sorry I didn't understand.

So the next question is, are you already running a social network site there or would this be a new one?

Thu May 27, 2010 at 04:07:57 PM EDT permalink [public]

Israel Vasquez It would definately fall under the first set, as it would be a facebook for belize for e.g

Thu May 27, 2010 at 04:02:28 PM EDT permalink [public]

Dan Kuck-Alvarez

The real question is, what does belize.bz do?

Some examples of websites that could be providers if they wanted to:
myspace.com
facebook.com
twitter.com

Some examples of websites which could be services if they wanted to:
flickr.com
youtube.com
digg.com

Which category would belize.bz fall into?

Thu May 27, 2010 at 03:14:45 PM EDT permalink [public]

Israel Vasquez Hello Dan, thanks for your answer ... so if i become a provider, i can then integrate it with my services?

Thu May 27, 2010 at 02:48:39 PM EDT permalink [public]

Dan Kuck-Alvarez

There are two kinds of entities in the Socknet: providers, which hold users' profiles; and services, which can interact with users' profiles.

If you want users to hold their own profile data, then you want to run a service. Sadly, this website's software isn't able to interact with services yet (it's only a couple months old).

The specification is available at http://socknet.net/.

When the system starts developing the ability to interact with services, there will be an announcement.

Thu May 27, 2010 at 01:55:23 PM EDT permalink [public]

Israel Vasquez ok so how do i integrate socknet into a social network? e.g I have belize.bz which is a social network for belize... but i want people to use socknet so that their data is theirs only... how does belize.bz integrate with socknet?

Thu May 27, 2010 at 10:22:13 AM EDT permalink [public]

Dan Kuck-Alvarez

In that case, you'll need to read the specification http://socknet.net/ and implement it in your website.

If you're familiar with Perl, then you can use the code from foolishmortal.org as a guide. http://sourceforge.net/projects/foomor-socknet/

As always I'll be here to answer questions.

I might write up something on http://socknet.net that will really walk you through the process of implementing a Socknet provider.

Thu May 27, 2010 at 04:36:00 PM EDT permalink [public]