I have literally just returned from a meeting at the 28c3 conference in berlin, where the Social Swarm group were discussing strategy in this direction. Social

I have literally just returned from a meeting at the 28c3 conference in berlin, where the Social Swarm group were discussing strategy in this direction. Social Swarm is an open think tank initiated by the German privacy and digital rights NGO FoeBuD. They are attempting to research and co-ordinate the many and varied efforts in decentralised, secure social networking. You should visit their wiki, where they have collected many resources from across the net, so we can get a handle on the many different projects and their statuses, as well as talk tactics with regards to that deciding factor, traction. You should also sign up to their mailing list if you are at all interested in these ideas. http://wiki.socialswarm.net/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.socialswarm.net/index.php/Main_Page Also, have a look at Secushare. Today I also attended a talk by some of the members of this project, and it seems extremely promising. They know what the hell they are doing, with something like a century of combined experience in the field. It's fully distributed, based on GNUnet, (similar to tor) and has some very innovative ideas around using the trust network implicit in the social graph for routing and distribution of data. http://secushare.org/ http://secushare.org/ (Note that I do not necessarily represent the social swarm collective, I only just met them today ;)