On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 11:54 -0700, Thomas Lord wrote: > This sounds like you are essentially contemplating > re-inventing Wave. > > -t > That very well could be. I haven't looked very much at it. I do feel, though, that it might be better for the free software community to have an open, unencumbered protocol akin to the OMB protocol that we know we can trust to be available to us. I predict that if the world of computing travels further into the clouds, Google's behavior will become like that of Microsoft's. > > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 14:18 -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 13:12 -0500, Hunger wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:04:23 -0400, Ted Smith <ted...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think it would be valuable to try to define a set of primitive > > > > operations that a social networking protocol could be based on, and a > > > > clear way of extending the protocol (so activist-oriented sites like > > > > Crabgrass could offer crabgrass<->crabgrass features that Elgg wouldn't > > > > have to implement) before starting to hack on stuff. It would be nice to > > > > do this the right way before cruft becomes the standard. > > > > > > I totally agree, though I do think some casual exploration might help in > > > formulating such protocols and/or figuring out what is and what is not > > > possible. > > > > > > I think I may have thrown this idea out already, but it seems possible to > > > create a social-networking protocol based on the OMB protocol (and > > > compatible with the OMB protocol). > > > > > I feel ambivalent about that. On the one hand, MB and social networking > > seem like different problems that require different solutions, but on > > the other hand, maybe the OMB protocol could be used to provide > > primitives for a social networking protocol (OSNP?). > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.autonomo.us > > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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