On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]> wrote: > James Walker wrote: >> >> Resist the temptation to have StatusNet do it all (tm). > > That's Drupal's Job. (TM) B-)
It is - and it's messy work :-P >> >> This is >> currently a nice piece of software that is on the right track towards >> being a great micro-messaging tool. >> > > Fair point, and thanks for the kudos. They're well deserved :-) >> So, by allowing files - StatusNet offers those interested a nice / >> integrated alternative to using the twitpic/yfrog/etc's of the world - >> but I'd try to stay focused. >> > > OK. I guess when you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Just > looking over different sites like Flickr, blip.fm, last.fm, delicious, etc. > so many of them could be fairly easily re-implemented with StatusNet. To me - a general guideline would be things that are time/stream based make good sense - so things like a flickr-ish photostream, blip.fm absolutely, last.fm from a sense of tracking each song (have you seen http://libre.fm/ yet?), delicious is a good fit. > Considering what a difficult problem efficient status sharing can be, it's > interesting to me to see how we can help people who want to implement it > elsewhere. Status update + extra/structured info (location, images, audio, a URL) is powerful stuff - and I think via the API, you can build really interesting stuff on top of it. -- James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: xmpp:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
