Re: [freenet-dev] Idea for marketing, related to GSoC student decision
On Tuesday 19 April 2011 19:22:09 Matthew Toseland wrote: On Monday 18 Apr 2011 15:49:50 xor wrote: IF we get a decent new web interface done which integrates all of those, we could make a theme which completely looks like Facebook and then do a major press release which claims something like Freenet project implements anonymous Facebook. This would probably hit most of the IT news sites and help usability very much because there are hundreds of millions of Facebook users and Facebook is a major buzzword. And probably result in legal issues e.g. trademark violation. “Freenet takes a hint from Facebook, but with real privacy (even from its developers)” “Don’t put your face in their book. Join the free net.” Just some legally safe PR ideas :) Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
Re: [freenet-dev] Idea for marketing, related to GSoC student decision
On Monday 18 Apr 2011 15:49:50 xor wrote: Hi, while looking at a screenshot of Sone and being impressed at it I had the following marketing idea: We have FlogHelper, Freemail, Sone, Web Of Trust and Freetalk. If we integrate them all on the web interface properly and extend them with some features we could get many of the interesting Facebook features: - Sone already provides the core of Facebook - the wall-style messaging - Freemail will provide private messaging if zidel's GSoC project is taken and succeeds - Profile pages could be done at WOT. Easy to implement And important IMHO. They must link to ALL the WoT services. I.e. you click on somebody in Freetalk and go to their profile, then you click a button to send them a private message, or see their flog, or whatever. - Photo albums are also easy to implement and could be done in WOT or Sone Or FlogHelper? I guess it would be best to separate and integrate... Photos are clearly valuable even if the traditional usages of them are far from anonymous. But we need more broadly to make it really easy for individual users to publish files of all sorts. If they are pictures they should be in galleries; if they are bigger files they might just be searchable. There is likely some overlap here... - Freetalk provides the group-collaborating / classic Internet messaging (- FlogHelper would be a bonus, not related to Facebook but blogging is also popular on the net) IF we get a decent new web interface done which integrates all of those, we could make a theme which completely looks like Facebook and then do a major press release which claims something like Freenet project implements anonymous Facebook. This would probably hit most of the IT news sites and help usability very much because there are hundreds of millions of Facebook users and Facebook is a major buzzword. And probably result in legal issues e.g. trademark violation. This is also not solely a marketing idea, it is somewhat needed for a good code architecture which avoids duplication: We have to find a way of making WOT UI available in all WOT-clients without code duplication. This requires some serious internal architecture improvements of the web interface probably. Strongly in favour. We need the Community menu for managing trust levels, and if we do it properly it can do a lot more than that. Given that the architecture of our web interface is homebrew, difficult to use by web developers and needs a complete re-write anyway I suggest that we include what I've described in this mail in our GSoC decision: IF there is a good student besides zidel who wants to revamp the web interface with a web-UI-framework we should try to take him. We could benefit very much from a new code architecture of the web interface! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
Re: [freenet-dev] Idea for marketing, related to GSoC student decision
[xor] IF we get a decent new web interface done which integrates all of those, we could make a theme which completely looks like Facebook and then do a major press release which claims something like Freenet project implements anonymous Facebook. This would probably hit most of the IT news sites and help usability very much because there are hundreds of millions of Facebook users and Facebook is a major buzzword. Given that the architecture of our web interface is homebrew, difficult to use by web developers and needs a complete re-write anyway I suggest that we include what I've described in this mail in our GSoC decision: IF there is a good student besides zidel who wants to revamp the web interface with a web-UI-framework we should try to take him. We could benefit very much from a new code architecture of the web interface! This would be great! If it is done before Diaspora [ https://joindiaspora.com/] (or similar) release, it would be a great hit for Freenet! (Diaspora aims to provide a decentralized open source social networking platform). All those people considered with commercial, unsafe and centralized nature of social networks such as Facebook, Orkut, etc. (e.g. myself!) could use Freenet as a replacement! The most important issue on moving to a new architecture and replace/enhance the current structure with a more developer/designer friendly one is deciding the right framework. Currently a custom from-the-scratch framework utilizing apache velocity and extending existing toadletServer and Toadlets is considered.( http://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2011-April/001504.html). If we reach a consensus on this matter I could start building a prototype framework and perform some tests on already existing toadlets. Regards Pouyan ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
