I would have thought maybe a better place to start would be facebook? Mostly what's going on there is various OAuth'd web "clients" (known as apps on the service) can post updates to specific friends. You can then filter replies by "client app". If you can mirror the APIs used by Facebook (which again, should be pretty straightforward, as it's all documented) and have a setting in the code base for "Must have two-way links to see each other's updates", then you've got a distributed facebook-like system :)
OK, so I'm massively simplifying things here, but it could be pretty straightforward? -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified On 11 Sep 2009 18:53, "Evan Prodromou" <[email protected]> wrote: So, what would it take to build a lightweight photo-sharing service like Flickr using StatusNet? I don't think very much. Since we allow file uploading, you could have a notice per photo (notice text provides the description), and "comments" would just be replies. Here's my list of things that would make a FlickrLite with StatusNet workable: File upload in the API. Privacy? Sharing only with family, friends, or a particular group? Is that 100% necessary? Marking each notice and file with license info? I think so. In-line view of images. Tagging others' notices? Could this work by just replying to a notice and including the tag? Am I missing anything? This doesn't seem like rocket science. There may be some things that need to be done in core; others would work fine in plugins. -Evan -- Evan Prodromou CEO, StatusNet, Inc. [email protected] - http://identi.ca/evan - +1-514-554-3826 _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
