************* * Friendika * ************* Friendika Communications Server http://project.friendika.com Friendika is a web application for managing social communications. Some would call it a "social network" or "distributed social network". We think both terms have been over-used, and don't adequately describe Friendika's capabilities - though Friendika can also fill those roles. At its essence, Friendika is a web application which can monitor various information and social activity streams, and which also lets you participate in online conversations with friends and associates, using a variety of network protocols. These are combined into an overview of your various communications and activities - regardless of network origin. Friendika also manages your personal profiles and photo albums and lets you securely present each of these to specific audiences. Your communications can be either open and public, or closed and private. You can easily create "groups" of contacts with which you can partition your conversations into private social circles, and which cannot be seen outside the circle. Friendika is decentralised. Any account on any Friendika server can connect with any account on any other Friendika server. You can also connect to and interact directly with friends on Facebook, Status.Net, and other federated social web services (e.g. identi.ca, GNU-Social, etc.). Outgoing communications can be directed to Friendika, existing accounts on Facebook and Twitter, federated social web providers - or even delivered to email contacts. Incoming data streams aren't limited to traditional social networks. They may include most any service which provides a syndication feed (both RSS and Atom). This allows you to view communications from friends in other diverse social networks - such as Diaspora, Google Buzz, and millions of blogs, news services, and other websites. You can also import contacts from (and write to) anybody that is accessible from your email INBOX and view them in your social stream. Over time we will try to build two-way bridges to other services so that you can freely interact in both directions with anybody on an accessible network that allows it. Communications between Friendika servers are private and encrypted, using military grade encryption - and require mutual identity provenance before any data is exchanged. These same crypto mechanisms provide remote password-less authentication; allowing you to post to profiles and view private photo collections on other servers - without encountering any login and/or authorisation dialogues when visiting these sites. Friendika has no boundaries and no central ownership of the data generated within the network. Anybody with a commodity PHP/MySQL web server or hosting account can provide a server, and each individual server can then support up to several thousand participating members - each with their own unique communication and privacy needs. This allows Friendika to scale to global levels and mimics the decentralised architecture of the web itself. If you are creating a website which requires social interaction, Friendika can also take the place of blog software, forum software and feed readers, and also provide individualised communications and content management - or simply be used as an alternative to traditional "monolithic" social networks. Friendika is also free - in every sense of the word. Choose freedom - join us. Find out more about the project at http://project.friendika.com ******************* Friendika Demo Site ******************* http://demo.friendika.com ******************* Friendika Downloads ******************* http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master