Social networking isn't exactly a sector I'd have expected Linux developer Red Hat to jump into (insert joke about geeks socializing here), but that's what they've done with Mugshot. Mugshot's stated purpose is "to create a live social experience around entertainment," and perhaps what's most notable about Mugshot is that it's open source, i.e. if you want you can download the source code to the Mugshot server and set up your own social networking site, and you can contribute code to the project as well. That's something you'll probably never see News Corp., Six Apart, or even AOL allow. Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow praises a demo of Mugshot he saw at the Red Hat Summit this week, saying, "it was pretty hot; they nicked the best stuff out of all the social networking sites and put them together in an open codebase."
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