On Tuesday 22 Nov 2011 08:53:11 C. Michael Crosiar wrote:
> Hi Tatyana,
>
> I have been working on designs for a filesharing plugin for the last
> couple of months. I have not yet presented my ideas, as I was not quite
> ready. However, I'll go ahead and give a summary of my thoughts to
> date.
>
> I'm looking for a user interface much like that of YouTube. The
> important part of this to me is the concept of "channels". Channels
> allow a user to subscribe to content they are interested in. So, if a
> user/channel publishes new content, all of the subscribers to that users
> channel will be notified of the new content. Further, the new content of
> all subscribed channels would be downloaded automatically. The idea here
> is to lower the impact of Freenet's latency - much of the content you
> are interested in is already downloaded and available when you begin
> browsing. Channels will be rated and content prioritized for channels
> that you have rated highly (WoT?). Filters would also be applied to
> prevent large downloads without explicit permission.
>
> Here are a few sections from my current design documentation (Please
> note that this is a work in progress and that I have not yet
> investigated the best leveraging of existing Freenet plugins):
>
> Social Media User Interface and Functionality
> Much like YouTube, the plugin will have a start page suggesting channels
> and content that you may be interested in. However, the plugin content
> is not limited to just videos, it can also include images, and audio
> content. In the future, this may also include other media types, such as
> PDFs and Wiki pages.
>
> The channel suggestions will be channels that your subscriptions have
> subscribed to. The concept here is that if you are interested in a
> channel, it likely has content that appeals to you. Therefore it is
> likely that any channels that they subscribe to may also have content of
> interest to you. In order to assist you in determining if that is true,
> channels suggestions will include a summary of the channel, something
> not provided by YouTube. This is important, as new channels and new
> channel content will not be immediately visible, due to the latency of
> Freenet. Once you subscribe to a new channel, the content of that
> channel will automatically begin to be downloaded and cached in the
> background for later viewing (subject to filtering).
>
> Videos will also have thumbnails and previews so that you can prioritize
> downloads that you think you may be of interest to you. This is again
> done to deal with the latency of Freenet. Content that is already cached
> will have a symbol in front of it, indicating that it is available for
> immediate viewing. If content is not cached, a download status and
> preview frame will appear in the content's place, showing the current
> download status, thumbnails and previews, if available. You can also
> change the download priority from inside this frame.
>
>
> Management of Multiple Channels
>
> Unlike YouTube, the plugin anticipates that you will have and maintain
> multiple channels for varying purposes (WoT identities). Because of
> this, the plugin will always keep a channel drop-drown box at the top of
> the screen, allowing you to change the channel you are viewing as and
> managing at any time.
>
> It is also possible, if not likely, that there are multiple channels
> with the same name. There is no way to reserve a channel name in the
> plugin, as you would in a hierarchical domain naming scheme. Although
> the channel name is not unique in the plugin, each channel does have a
> unique signature for identification of the channel and its contents.
>
>
> Categorizing and Tagging Content
>
> YouTube does not allow you to categorize your content. The only
> categorization possible is by the use of Playlists. This plugin will
> allow easy categorization of your content by use of folders. Folders are
> hierarchical, meaning the folders can contain folders, just like on your
> typical computer file system. Content that can be categorized in folders
> includes your Channel list, Liked, Favorite, Playlists, Content and
> External Links. In addition, all of the above can have tags placed on
> them for simple locating and indexing of related content.
>
>
> Content Views
>
> All channel and content lists can be viewed as thumbnails that can be
> drilled down into. This includes images, videos, audio and all other
> types of media. Thumbnail views can be shown either on a sidebar next to
> the current content being viewed or in a full page view. All content can
> have a thumbnail image attached to it. If the thumbnail is not
> available, an image of a ??? will be shown in its place.
>
>
> Embedding external content as your own
>
> External media content can be presented on a channel using the External
> Content Wrapper and supplying the Freenet URL of the media content to be
> added to your channel. Once external content is added to a channel, it
> can be favorited or added to a playlist just like any other content. It
> will be shown to other viewers of your channel as Uploaded content, just
> as if you had uploaded it yourself.
>
>
> Publishing your Channel
>
> Changes you make are not immediately visible to your subscribers until
> your channel is published. When you publish your channel, all of your
> channel and its content are generated into XML files. Because you can
> configure what content lists, types and categories you want published
> for your channel, XML files will only be generated if they have been
> previously marked for ?publication?. As a further safety precaution,
> before publication, you are presented with a summary of what is going to
> be published and can optionally exclude any of the above from being
> published. Once this publication list is confirmed by you, any of these
> XML files that have changed and have your permission to be published are
> pushed onto the Freenet data-store.
>
>
> Channel Indexing
>
> TBD - Suggestions welcome
>
> Extra Plugins
>
> YouTube Scrapper Plugin
>
> The YouTube Scrapper Plugin allows you to scrape an existing YouTube
> channel and add it to your Freenet channel. This clones any YouTube
> account for fast and easy generation of your channel and content.
>
>
> Browser Plugin
>
> Using a browser plugin, the download status of content will be reflected
> by the color of the tab. When a video is ready to play, the tab of the
> video will turn green; or in the alternate, activated. As soon as the
> tab is activated, the video will begin to play. {Need to investigate
> feasibility of this plugin}
>
> Plugin Implementation
> The user interface of the plugin will be locally generated from XML
> files and templates. This is done so that the plugin can have a rich
> user interface without any risk of downloading executable code from
> Freenet that could compromise the identity or security of the the user.
> These XML files will hold:
>
>
> * Channel Profile
>
> * Channel CSS Customizations
>
> * Channel Subscription Requests
>
> * Channel Subscriber Requests
>
> * Channel Subscriptions *
>
> * Channel Subscribers *
>
> * Channel Content Watched *
>
> * Channel Content Favorites *
>
> * Channel Content Likes *
>
> * Channel Playlist Enumeration *
>
> * Channel Playlist *
>
> * Channel Content/Products (Uploads)
>
> * Content Comments
>
> * Content Comment (like/dislike/spam) Votes
>
>
>
> * Uploaded/shared optionally to Freenet based on local user preferences.
>
> As these XML files change, they will be published back out to Freenet,
> where channel subscribers will download and cache them, along with any
> related content files. These XML files will then be used to build the
> web pages locally. This preserves security, since you always know the
> source of the code being executed - the plugin.
>
>
>
> Let me know what you think...
This looked nice, did you ever make any progress? Is it waiting for any
particular Freenet feature? If you're not interested I might put it on a bug
report or something so somebody else could look into it some day ...
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