From a blog posting at status.net on distributed networks of the "social web" - very interesting as it looks like someone has taken a pragmatic view and actually reused some of the existing simple protocols :

Luckily for us, there have been a number of advances in the distributed social Web in the last two years. In Fall of 2009, we started re-designing OMB. We abandoned any attempt at backwards compatibility, so we were really able to come up with a system built of shiny new components that make more sense.
These components are:
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The "fingerprint" of my browser - interesting stuff, but I'm not sure how useful it is:

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Measuring download speed of web pages is a big thing for me - and there are extremely few tools that can be used to reliably gather both the download time of individual pages once and twice (to simulate the effect of internal browser caches - and intermediate proxies) - and do this at regular intervals to find the effect of varying server load throughout the day.

Episodes seems like a good tool to solve part of this requirement :
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From Emediate's website - their FAW section :

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They seem to have left default filler text as answers to their FAW questions ......

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