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 - Photo albums are also easy to implement and could be done in WOT or Sone - 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. 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. 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! Greetings, xor -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110418/a60db7a0/attachment.pgp>
