Mugshot (website)

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Not to be confused with Mug shot.
Mugshot
Type of site
Social network service
OwnerRed Hat

Mugshot was a

social networking website created by Red Hat. Unlike most other social networking websites, which are concerned with advertising, Mugshot offered a desktop client
and web widgets.

Mugshot was meant to facilitate real-world

interactions with friends and make one's normal computer use more social.[citation needed] It provided the functionality of a social network aggregator
.

Licensing

The software that ran the Mugshot site is

free software licences.[1]

Features

Site features included Web Swarm, which allowed users to share web links and participate in conversations about them. Another feature was Music Radar, which displayed the songs a user was listening to and enabled conversations about the music.

Mugshot also integrated with various other sites, including Twitter, Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, last.fm and YouTube. Numerous features were planned, including "TV Party."

Current status

From April 4 until May 11, 2009, the Mugshot website, mugshot.org, was inaccessible and displayed the message: "Mugshot is currently not running." The website no longer resolves.

The mugshot

SVN is still being maintained and hosted by Red Hat.[citation needed] There will be no further updates to the code base from the original development team from Red Hat.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ Red Hat creates social networking site Ryan Paul, Ars Technica, (May 31, 2006).
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