Etopian

We're now looking for people who are interested in beta testing our open source social network. Just drop a line, tell us a bit about yourself, and why you're interested in what we're doing and we'll get you set up. Initially we're not releasing the code, so we'll get you set up on a sub-domain here and our hosting in the future will be here too. You can contact us through this form.Read more

We've been thinking about the guarantees that we're willing to make regarding any information that we collection and how we handle your data. After some discussion, here are the rules:

• Entire site deletion within 24 hours
• Backup log deletion within 6 months
• Anonymization of any stored data after 6 months
• Full backup of your site, all of the content, and the application that runs the site available at any time.
• Open Source to boot! All of our code that powers your site is available at any time, it's licensed under GPL and may be deployed on any LAMP stack.
• Canadian privacy laws apply. We're located in Canada currently and so are our servers, so for now we're following Canadian laws. In the future this may change as we move to CDN's in the United States and other countries.

We have been slowly developing Social OS in order to cook it to perfection. Social OS attempts to progress in the direction of providing similar functionality to what users have come to expect while standing out in terms of privacy and freedom. We are actually pretty close in terms of what we wanted to achieve, but the more difficult part will be developing an easy deployment system so we can provide hosting. Currently it's up in the air as to whether we want to do the entire thing in house or use some other service. Only time will tell.