Great post Kevin. Re: the comment on application directories. The following is an application directory maintained soley by open contributors:
http://www.opensocialdirectory.org/ Note the .org - it is intended as a community wide project adhering to the wikipedia style "neutral point of view" policy. I believe that having a directory independent of any container could be advantageous to the ecosystem. In line with the words of Brad Fitzpatrick: "Nobody should own this. Nobody's planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there's no money or licensing or registering required to play. It benefits the community as a whole if something like this exists, and we're all a part of the community." The site will be completely opened up to any and all that wish to contribute, with feeds available to all containers/directories that wish to have them, as well as the underlying data, ranking algorithims and metrics. It's still early days, but I think this is the already one of the most comprehensive application directories out there. With the addition industry strength ranking algorithms, filters and spam protection (chosen and implemented by the community), the result can develop to become an extremely beneficial resource for the wider community, and can hopefully grow hand in hand with the excellent work already done by google, ning, plaxo, hi5 and others. Feedback welcome. > Application directory and installation spread > > Another area of active discussion is how to share Application > Directories between containers, and how Applications can gather users. > > Please reply back to this thread with any comments, suggestions and > concerns. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
