Sorry for heading so off topic with this post! Andy http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Turner Sent: 19 May 2008 11:36 To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Geowanking] "formal" photo of GeoWankers at Where 2.0
Hi List, I've been reading this for a while with interest. I do regard email as a very useful form of asynchronous communication. I am aware (as I'm sure are many of you) that there are social networking sites that use email as one form of messenging, but that have a large number of other tools for communication/ways of communicating. Users can develop catalogs using these system which can have useful adaptive learning search facilities. Now, I know there is a plethora of these social networking tools (SNT) and I have tried out and use a number of them for work and none work things. I appreciate there are barriers to what I'll suggest and it may already be done, but it would be nice to have a reasonably automatic way to not just join my friend lists using foaf or something, but to also join some of the communications of friends in a common interface. So I have friends using one SNT and others using another SNT and I want to introduce one or some from each, at the moment I don't know of a service to do this, it requires someone to be on both systems and relay information, or all three to be on both systems, in which case there are still barriers getting info in and out of each system and no real common interface (OK, they could use two browser windows, but that's not really it). A geosearch across these is perhaps more of interest, for example: 1) Person X has registered as joining you in this room, this person is a reciprocal friend (both regard each other as friends) of person Y, who is not registering as here, but is planning to come later. 2) Person X usually works near you and travels from near you at around the same times on Friday's, they are in the same traffic queue. If you shared a lift you would be allowed to use the multiple occupancy lane and this is likely to cost D difference in cost and T difference in time. 3) Person X and Person Y that should be carrying medication M nearby (send a message, get directions). (N.B. In these examples, I may have gone OTT, but I was thinking that Person X and Y might be registered only with different SNT, but also expose something like a foaf document to a geolinking service. Issues abound in doing this. Sorry if you have heard this all before. It is hard to keep up with all developments that are happening and changing this world. Thanks to the list for helping me do that a bit. Best wishes, Andy http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stephen white Sent: 19 May 2008 10:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] "formal" photo of GeoWankers at Where 2.0 On 18/05/2008, at 5:26 AM, Anselm Hook wrote: > This could spur an ecosystem of parties who would try to answer > questions... and it would spur the creation of trust filters and > permissioning policy... in some ways similar to fire-eagle.... Old > style searching might feel old fashioned, like television, by > comparison... In fact you could probably build a pretty good > searchable internet without any single definitive search company. > > Has anybody done that? I haven't, but I'd like to have an environment where something like this could be tried. Right now, you have to set up a web site, then try and get enough people to use it, while overcoming the "not enough people using it" problem. Instead of that current path, how about an environment where there is a steady base of users (like geowankers) and a mechanism for trying out those ideas? That's the point I'm driving towards. How do we lower the cost of ideas? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
