-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
This discussion is in perfect timing for me. I'm coming back to this community and still I'm learning the basics, but I have already thought some project to make in order to learn web2py that are similar with this idea. I would talk about this projects and how they have changed, so this thought path may help to the discussion on this idea (none of them is actualy implemented or explored and I have just putting web2py online after exploring * My first project was trying to make a url shorter with social features, like tagging and sharing and some personalized information for registered users. The advantage was that I have not to create a a new social network but just "connect" the new one (url shorter) with the existing ones of microblogging (twitter, identica, etc). The problem here is to make explicit the added value of the social url shorter in the wide range of available options (not many of them have social features and are free software). The idea was adding some kind of p2p architecture to solve the main complain about url shorters as a single point of failure for web addresses. (For Spanish readers in [1] is the detailed description). [1] http://holonica.net/home/libertica/un-acortador-de-direcciones-diferente-distribuido-y-con-valor-agregado * The second project I thought was something like {Google Buzz / Soupio} + {Gitorius}. I don't like social networks, really I don't, because they're not designed for collective creation like wikis or code repositories, just socialization, which is fine, but not enough. That's why I use identi.ca frequently but I still am searching for something that has the dynamism of microblog/soupio/buzz but still let you fork or co-create things with the people you follow. I was thinking in something distributed, portable, self-contained and minimal as a back end, and that's why I asked about fossil-scm + web2py integration and pointed to the unhosted[2] project. I imagine flows of content being created, published, shared, forked and recombined by the users of this network. I have not seen something distributed that combines social networking and collective creation (diaspora is more like a distributed and privacy aware facebook). [2] http://unhosted.org/ Of course this are just newbie ideas and I don't know how difficult they're to implement or how valuable are for the rest of the community, but now that we're on brainstorming I want to put this on the table. Thanks, Offray El 17/01/11 14:43, Massimo Di Pierro escribió: > Most social network assue you know who your friends are and allow you > to share info with your friends. How about the opposite? Something > like a bookmarking app that tells me who my friends should be based on > physical distance and recent common bookmarks? > > It seems to me the main problem to me is that a lot of people are > alone they because do not necessarily share interests with their > colleagues and family members. Facebook is popular because it allows > people to connect with people that they knew and therefore assume had > something in common. Until people find out time has passed by and > there is not really much to talk about. You can be a scientist and > soon find your page polluted with somebody's horoscope. > > - a bookmarking system like http://radbox.me/ > - when you bookmark something you tag with fixed categories > - a way to sort/organize and rate own bookmarks using mouse drag and > drop. > - you have a profile and public pages showing your bookmarks only (can > be used by a prof to share links with students for example) > - Once logged in you can see other users nearby that bookmarked - > independently - the same links, and filter then by location, gender, > age, bookmark category (could compete with match.com too) > - You can then choose to be notified when a given person bookmarks > something new (like twitter) > - You can check who is following your bookmarks. > > Massimo > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNNRH5AAoJEGiex2828ICw9UcIAKy0b4c96CKI+Km0kOTkYZtG 2cyZNOHpNv2U9UK5IeRkKXzIIpZ7kmxfMZzZhyXEdlJUohyv1KmEvNHYUldgGd+B G2gjmLHbaCRRTiey0XJnj0yPaNGMBcrwZKu+LpAwpcq2IQhZSqeCHC4oyo4+3bob cCih8kqvwTQia999m4IxBbxzBJFIJ+zVk14Sk+KRcvUJ3Ectx19/vs7vKuRLu2AL IDswumDY1oLTaebmt8v7xgTObQWeH4+jlnJOWeYYnYVTwKUUn0sb7vrYrIyDxab8 WeuWMzRx8t7Fw3e2WmPOVvi5Pf+bZucvd2qb0KSQ81dq+KAkiyQmHwOkANYYUWo= =hkQu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
