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The phenomenon of social networking has entered the lives of millions of people via the ubiquitous Web-based platforms such as Facebook and Google+ which are centralized platforms completely controlled by single entities. However, a complete parallel message-passing infrastructure already exists and has the benefit of 30 years experience and investments: the SMTP e-mail network, which together with the latest technologies can be utilized to provide a completely decentralized, convenient, private and even fault-tolerant social networking platform. This work in progress aims to design and implement a proof of concept of such idea.
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Voras, I., Orlić, M., Žagar, M. (2012). Something Old Is New Again: Reimagining the Oldest Social Networking Platform. In: Göschka, K.M., Haridi, S. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7272. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30823-9_18
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