Massimiliano Mirra wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:15 PM, anders conbere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Most social network services today provide tools for a set of people >> with share interests. Be it TripIt, LastFM, or Facebook. For lots of >> these networks they derive their valuation from a locked in user >> model. But for smaller Social Network services they're value for the >> creators is in (for the most part) the quality of the users >> participating and the number of users participating. > > +1 > > While the barrier of entry for web development has gone down > dramatically with affordable hosting and OSS stacks, it's still very > high when the the value an app can convey depends on size of user base > and relationships. I think neither users nor most developers are > happy about this. Solving this by leveraging a decentralized network > (as opposed to just building on something like Facebook) would be > <understatement>nice</understatement>.
Part of the challenge is that XMPP rosters are Jabber-centric -- the item key is a JID. Now if your JID is the same as your email address or application-specific identifer then JID = "just an ID", but if not they you don't have a way to force your identifier into the roster. Is this a big problem? I'm not sure yet. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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