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Advogato is an online community site dedicated to free software development, created by Raph Levien.

Advogato was an early pioneer of "online diaries" which later became know as blogs. Advogato combined the most recent entries from each user's diary together into a single continuous feed called the recentlog. This directly inspired the creation of the Planet aggregator somewhat later.

The motivating idea for Advogato was to try out in practice Levien's ideas about attack resistant [[Trust Metrics]], having users certify each other in a kind of peer review process and use this information to avoid the abuses that plague open community sites. Levien observed that his notion of attack resistant trust metric was fundamentally very similar to the PageRank algorithm used by Google to rate article interest. In the case of Advogato, the trust metric is designed to include all individuals who could reasonably be considered members of the Free Software and Open Source communities while excluding others.

==Links==
*http://www.advogato.org
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato

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