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* Friendika *
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Social Communications Platform
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http://friendika.com
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Since the dawn of the world-wide-web, the internet has been a battleground
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between the "big boys" with all their resources, and a bunch of upstarts whose
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goal is to topple the status quo - and bring the same powers of global reach
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to anybody with a computer and an internet connection.
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The latest battleground is social networking. Many of your friends would
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have you believe that the world (and all the information in it) belongs to
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Facebook.
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Friendika is here to rock that boat.
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Granted, all your friends aren't here - yet. The people who made fun of you
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in high school (yet curiously wanted to be friends with you now) are still
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"poking" each other and managing their virtual farms and telling you all about
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their virtual gang wars. Would you miss them?
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I wouldn't.
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You probably have a handful of friends that are truly special. Tell those
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friends that the world has changed - because it has. It's time to move on. A
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year ago, if you had left Facebook, there was no place to go - at least a
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place which offered the same kind of social interaction (and wasn't just
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another huge company trying to make money off of all of your private
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information).
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Today you have options.
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What if there was a social network which provided some of the same
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interaction you've grown to love, *and* was free to use, *and* was open source,
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*and* where your privacy is always under your control?
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And what if this social network could scale to encompass the entire
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internet, and *not* require a central organisation - whose core business model
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is to sell information it can discover about you for profit?
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Look no further.
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Friendika is a social network without boundaries, and without ownership.
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Friendika installations can link together into a global social network which
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is free from central control. Besides the Friendika network (which is privacy
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enhanced); you can also connect with and communicate with friends on identi.ca,
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Status.Net and many other sites and social networks *today*.
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Welcome to the federated social web. If you choose not to use Friendika
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(though we think you'd be foolish not to), you can choose any of 20-30 other
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providers of federated social communications software and still be a part of this
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vast new social network. This is going to be bigger than Facebook.
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Much bigger.
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We are currently developing connectors to seamlessly communicate with many
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other open social networks and providers - like Diaspora, GNU-Social,
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OneSocialWeb, and even some of the larger closed services such as Facebook and
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Twitter.
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Over the coming months, the boundaries between these networks will start
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to become indistinguishable as they all become part of your social circle.
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Our core belief is that your personal thoughts and conversations belong to
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you - and are only meant to be shared with those you wish to share them with.
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Period.
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Friendika is secure, and as private as you wish it to be. Our privacy
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settings are straight-forward and simple, because we know that relationships
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rarely are (straight-forward and simple). Whether you're communicating with
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drinking buddies or potential employers, you can rest assured that each is
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only able to see the side of you that you wish to present. If you send a
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private message to your aunt Mary, we will encrypt it with military grade
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encryption.
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Friendika delivers. We've got an incredibly rich social communications
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interface you can make use of *right now*.
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And lest you think we're just trying to copy Facebook feature-for-feature,
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you couldn't be further from the truth. We like the conversational style
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because it feels natural, and that's why Facebook grew to be what it is today.
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But we're creating something completely different.
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Something better.
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Start with richer communications. Adorn your text, colour it. We've got a
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text counter in case you're sending across to one of the primitive social
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networks, but we don't think you should have to squeeze your communications
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into some arbitrary limit. Free yourself from thinking how to squeeze your
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message into 140 or 420 characters, or sending messages in some strange
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short-hand code. Even edit your text after you send it. It's OK.
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A single instance of Friendika can easily support hundreds of (and up to
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several thousand) people using commodity hosting hardware. You could even run
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Friendika on an old PC in your closet or garage. Each of these people are able
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to connect with potentially hundreds or thousands of friends and associates
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on any other supported network anywhere in the world and share photos, links,
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status updates, etc.
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But maybe you don't want to be connected to the world... and that's OK
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too. Friendika may 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 Friendika has unlimited profiles available to them. There
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is a "public profile" which can be seen by anybody. Additional profiles may be
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tailored to specific groups or individuals. Try doing that on Twitter.
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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
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groups, and even organisational 'soapboxes' - for social communications that
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require the ability to scale to global levels. Friendika 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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Join us.
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Friendika Demo Site
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http://demo.friendika.com
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Friendika Downloads
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http://github.com/friendika/friendika/tarball/master
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