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Mistpark
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Distributed Social Network
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What if there was a social network which was free to use, open source - and
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where your privacy is always under your control?
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What if this social network could scale to encompass the entire internet, and
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*not* require a central organisation to provide servers (in exchange for
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selling your private information to advertisers)?
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Look no further.
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Mistpark is a social network without boundaries. Mistpark installations can
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link together into a global social network which is free from central
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control. We are developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many
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other open social networks and providers - GNU-social, Diaspora, Status.net,
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and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and Twitter.
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Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start to
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become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle.
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Your personal thoughts and conversations belong to you - and are shared with
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those you wish to share them with.
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Period.
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Mistpark is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy settings
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are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships rarely are
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(straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with drinking
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buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is only able to
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see the side of you that you wish to present.
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A single instance of Mistpark Server can easily support hundreds of (and up to
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several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. Each of these
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people are able to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends
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and associates on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share
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photos, links, status updates, etc.
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But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... That's OK too.
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Mistpark may also be closed off from the global community and used to support
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social networking amongst corporate, educational, religious, and other private
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communities. This makes it an excellent choice for the social networking needs
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of young teenagers and especially k-12 organisations.
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Every person on Mistpark has unlimited profiles available to them. There is a
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"public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be
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tailored to specific groups or individuals.
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Groups may be created and used for closed conversations. In this way your
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conversations with one group of friends is completely isolated from other
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friends or groups of friends.
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You may also create interactive band/celebrity pages, special interest groups,
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and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that require
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the ability to scale to global levels. Mistpark provides for automatic
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relationship management in these extreme cases so that you can concentrate on
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your message and public persona - and not worry about being swamped by friend
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requests. You can even maintain private social contact with your closest
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friends and public updates to your hordes of fans - using the same interface.
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No other social network offers this ability.
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IMPORTANT: Please see the file INSTALL for system requirements.
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Visit http://mistpark.com for more information.
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You may also contact the author and raise issues via the source code
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repository on github -- http://github.com/macgirvin/mistpark
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It's your network now. If social networking isn't what you thought it would
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be, help us to make it better.
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