2010/3/17 Petr Viktorin <[email protected]> > We need to have a model to make a protocol or software implementation: > technical consideraions aside, we need to think about this: > > What is a post/dent/update? > Just plain text? Or HTML (which subset of it)? Some kind of Wiki > markup? Or anything, with content negotioation, HTML/text being > required? > Is there a character limit? If yes, is there some other category of > "post" I can use if I'm over the limit – blog post, journal – and how > does that work? > Can I share links, photos, videos, PDFs, mp3s, 3D models, Javascript > webapps? Any considerations about bandwidth (videos allow alternate > link to Youtube/other site)? Legal issues? > What metadata does a post have? > Can it be shared/re-posted? By whom? How do we prevent unauthorized > sharing? What metadata gets shared? > > Can I comment on anything I can see? Who sees my comment, who gets > notified of it? Does it get attached to the original post? What is the > comment, anyway – a first-class post, or something specific? If > something specific, can I comment with rich text? A video, song, an > executable program? > > Can I recommend something to someone else? Add a personal message to > that recommendation (a private-r version of "comment", maybe)? > Do we want to support aggregator websites that for example make a > gallery out of all/some pictures recommended to them? > > How does privacy tie into all of this? > > How do private messages work? Can I message just anyone? What about > spam? If some private messages are blocked, how do I contact a new > friend for the first time? > > What is an user? A relationship/friend/follower? FOAF has some answers > here, is that enough? >
FOAF has Person / Agent / knows. But remember that FOAF is not a protocol, simply a vocab for making up data. Anything we dont have can be put in another vocab. For example SIOC has posts / microblogs / followers. There's a relationship vocab for different kinds of relationship etc. There's another vocab for e-commerce. Anything we need that doesn't exist already, we can put in a GNU Social vocab. > If I'm a celebrity, can I separate my public and private profile? Can > I still have a single login? Can I have my PR guy put stuff on my > profile? > > And back to the second sentence: we really need to think about terminology, > too. > > Feel free to ask more questions, these are probably pretty biased > towards the model in my head. > > >
