About - About the Project, the Team and some more...
What is NoseRub all about?
Social networks are great: you can stay in touch with friends all across the world and find new ones based on your interests. But often, social networks serve a single purpose or interest. For instance photos, videos or classmates from school and university.
This is not a problem by itself, but when you want to keep track of all your contacts in all these social networks, this is a lot of work for you to update your contacts list in all the social networks you are in. And you also might need to get a member of a social network, although you're not interesed in the subject, but only want to track your friends activities.
NoseRub only defines the social network and some basic content types like media, links, micropublishing and text. You can now add all your contacts to a NoseRub network and aggregate several social networks into just one.
And you always have full control of your data, as you can install NoseRub on your own server and have it connect to other servers out there.
Videos
These videos might give you a better view of what NoseRub is (videos in german only)

Sebastian Küpers und Dirk Olbertz über dezentrale soziale Netzwerke

BarCamp Cologne: NoseRub - dezentrale soziale Netzwerke
The NoseRub Team
Dirk Olbertz is working as Senior Developer at Ormigo and has a long history of building scaleable web applications. Dirk started NoseRub and is the main developer of the project.
His NoseRub-ID: identoo.com/dirk.olbertz
Alexander Kaiser is a Art Director at Media Ventures. Alexander (also known as »poolie«) does the Design and XHTML/CSS for NoseRub.
His NoseRub-ID: identoo.com/poolie
Daniel Hofstetter is a freelancer and a blogger, who writes primarily about the CakePHP framework. He is responsible for the integration of the OpenID standard in NoseRub.
His NoseRub-ID: identoo.com/dho