Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 13th Jan 2007 09:26 UTC
Last June a spin-off department of Red Hat, lead by desktop guru Havoc Pennington, announced Mugshot. Originally, Mugshot was in the midst of controversy whether it's a social networking application or not. Apparently, it instead is a "social networking aggregator". In order for this to work, access to third party data is a must.
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2007-01-11
In the current state, I didn't find the tool quite interesting. Just a big frontend.
I think the only major advantage now is that the site is filled with open-source developers. The groups and other materials mostly are related to open-source development in general. So access to some discussions about open-source software should be really easy.
Maybe it's because I am not a heavy user of blogs/flickr/etc, but this is my current opinion.
However, I find quite interesting the initiative from Red Hat in working in this project. Normally, these kind of projects are developed by big enterprises with closed source, and Red Hat offers an open environment with no strings attached. It's refreshing to know that some open-source development communities are developing out there creative tools different from the typical linux-distro/IM-client/email-client software.
Edited 2007-01-13 13:19