Diaspora
Some college kids out of NYU who rallied a movement for a more privacy-aware, federated social web to the tune of more than $200,000 in Kickstarter funding. Code drop is expected on September 15.
http://www.joindiaspora.com/
One Social Web
Was doing Open Social until the project was scuttled by Vodafone in July.
Appleseed Social Network
I’ve just heard of this one but from what I gather it is a Mozillia drumbeat project started by contributor Michael Chisari. Sounds promising, but I don’t know how much work is being done on it now.
Does anyone else out there know of any other projects moving us toward the social web we need?