My Facebook network is not my real social network. It mostly contains people i know, not the ones i interact with. My real social network is in my Android powered phone. I am waiting for a better merge with the contacts on my phone and the rest of social circles.

Is the source code available on the web for the sinatra app?

" Here's what I'm talking about: an address book for my phone that remembers everyone I call, and everyone who calls me, and syncs with my email, which remembers every email I send and receive, and an IM client ditto -- and that uses Google-like heuristics to help me figure out who I want. And then uses P2P and various trust metrics to help me find people who are not in my immediate communication orbit.

I mean, how often do you search through your email to find the email address or phone number of someone you communicate with but just didn't happen to tell your address book explicitly to remember?

So now start imagining this "real" social network, as expressed by our communication tools and captured in our personal address book, starting to be overlaid with everything else we know about ourselves and our contacts -- their photo stream, their blog, etc. Imagine Nat Friedman's dashboard (I wish that were still progressing) in the sidebar of any communication app, reminding us of the latest to be known about anyone we're communicating with.

I could go on and on. Add in Seth Goldstein's attention recorder and ideas from mybloglog, a dash of Microsoft Wallop, and Gordon Bell's mylifebits." --Tim O'Reilly

I would say that the address book (or People app) on my Android along with Google Voice is a step in the right direction. Syncs with Gmail. Tracks Facebook, Twitter, Flikr, Youtube, other? updates by that person. Uses their Facebook image for their photo. Obviously it doesn't help me communicate with people not explicitly remembered outside of people that have called, messaged or emailed me.

Is there a point in reposting one comment from the article completely out of context with no added commentary of your own?

sorry, error in form is my mistake. but i think the comment is not out of context. it basically describes what kind of an addressbook can enable our real social network.

It should have been a part of the main post.

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you can have two /etc/hosts (hosts - hosts.restricted), and a script switches each.

implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.

Or you can just install rescue time. I think this is a new feature now.

how about turning this to a full framework? or is there one already?

I'll brainstorm the idea. I have some ideas of how to turn this evented programming into a very natural flow using ruby 1.9.1's fibers.

I've been tinkering with continuation passing web frameworks in Ruby, but haven't had time to really dive into making one. There is plenty of inspirational material out there e.g. Seaside. If you get anywhere, myself and probably others in the community would be interested to hear about it.

http://blog.extension.ws/11/modal_web_experiments

This would be extremely interesting as this area is one major weakpoint for available Ruby frameworks.

it is not a free ebook. it's an image of the book's text.