2009/9/11 Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>: > 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
Hi everyone. Those that know me, probably know I've been wanting to carry this idea forward. OTOH I haven't been seeing Evan pushing this, so I suspect he changed his ideas. Non the less I believe that integrating media into µblogging (and the other way around too) is a good idea, and have been trying to pull a rabbit out of the hat on how to do it. One thing that earlier came to my mind is that StatusNet is good at doing µblogging but not at images gallery showing. There are plenty of other services and CMS out there doing it. So instead of reinventing the wheal, I believe the best way for us to proceed is partnering with 3rd party image/media services. So, after I found ourdoings.com from Bruce Lewis, for personal use, and began talking to him about this idea, he showed interest in partnering. All we need is to write up a good open API for media S2S sharing. The way I see this working is having users upload images on a StatusNet server that would then store it on 3rd party media servers, where the user would have his own gallery linked back to his statusnet account, allowing comments on images there to be sent to the Federated network. Both poster and and viewer could choose to view images inline or as links (via our great external media viewer). Tags on images would also be tags on user timeline Is this good? Who wants to help out writing the API? Then we could make this yet another plugin where server admins would enable at will choosing from the available supported 3rd party media servers. What is required on both ends to make this work? any ideas are good ideas at this point. Also we could make use of the future OAuth module to handle authentication, right? Come on, shoot your brains at me, so we all can make StatusNet better. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) Linux user #443786 GPG key 1024D/A1784EBB
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