sudoSocial is a new experiment in the Mozilla Labs Concept Series aiming to build a stream publishing platform, suitable for a profile page server. sudoSocial was developed by Austin King.
Here’s a short video overview of the key components and its implementation:
Additional Thoughts
Long term sudoSocial would be suitable for curating any stream of content, but as we want to get this into your hands very early in the process, the initial release is rather sparse. The system has enough functionality to kick off the discussion and get you hacking on your own personal homepage replacement with just a little CSS, JavaScript or Processing.js.
Your profile will look something like the demo, which you can easily customize.
Here is another example of an embedded homestream where the theme was hacked together in a couple of nights, playing with HTML 5 technologies, and showing some of the possibilities that having full control over your own lifestream can create. The content is hosted on sudosocial.me and embeded via a javascript tag.
Getting Started
All you need is an OpenID account. To get started simply log into sudosocial.me. Being an experiment (and an early release), keep in mind there will be bugs, security issues, and other bleeding edge nuisances.
In addition to the source code, you can also download a VirtualBox appliance that is already setup for hacking on the platform.
This project’s README file has more detail on the ideas that inspired the project. Now it’s your turn!
Participate
- Setup and customize your stream
- Hack the source code
- Run the VirtualBox Appliance (1GB torrent, username/password is Ubuntu/password)
- Discuss, debate, and get help in the discussion forum
- Chat via IRC in #sudosocial on irc.mozilla.org
I’m all for Free, Open and distributed lifestreams and aggregates. But I don’t understand why you start creating your own instead of joining forces with one of the many already out there, like NoseRub or any of the ones mentioned on Two point Open. They’ve come a long way already, but could really need some help to not wither and die, which would be a shame if they did.
Noserub looks like it could be a great idea.
I see sudosocial as a decent lifestreaming profile page. I have yet to find one that'll give me the features I want for free.
can't open an account w/gmail,com addy -yes, i have a google profile….
I like it a lot. Down with closed systems and creepy corporations (cough: Facebook).
Isn't this very similar to the Labs project Raindrop? Both your efforts should be combined. Raindrop could use a way to publish all that content to a web profile page like you imagined. Also, create multiple streams. Ya?
Mozilla should collaborate with others to make open source apps rock not duplicate
https://sudosocial.me/auth gives me a 404.
You should work with the GNU social team to make sure that you support all the relevant standard protocols. It will make it better for everybody.
http://ozten.com/homepage-demo.html completely hangs Firefox, both 3.6.4 and nightly from 5th.
This looks pretty cool at first glance. Will have to give it a try. @Murabiskin, I think realistically there are always going to be multiple projects addressing the same target functionality. Rather than insisting that the various open source projects "pick a winner" to go up against the propriety alternatives I think it's probably more realistic to let many flowers bloom and strongly encourage the use of open standards, APIs and protocols so that users do not lose control of their data, can interact with users of different platforms, and/or switch to using those platforms if that's what they want to do.
Doesn't allowing users to include arbitrary JavaScript on their page open you up to cross site scripting attacks?