Hi Everyone. I am posting a brief sketch of the task I would like to work in StatusNet for Gsoc10. Its more of elaboration of the task as presented in the idea.
*Find people you already know.* Implement a system to let new users (no existing network!) and existing users (partial social network) find the OStatus accounts of people they already know and are interested in. An individual these days has many online presence. He is subscribed to blogging sites, facebook/orkut, twitter . The task here is to find our friends who already have an online presence on OStatus accounts.. A. The first question begins with permissions. Does a user want to be found in public? A network may be secure and the user accounts and activities on the network maybe confidential. So the basic framework which implements this must take security into account. These OStatus accounts must be somehow made private and must not occur in public domain for searches. Is this required or possible? Should this permission be network based or user based? B. Searching. 1. Searching on same network Emails addresses are one way a user can be searched on same network. But its not necessary that the email address be same. A heuristic approach can be used to categorize people based on first names and their corresponding networks. A list such as, *Do you know them?* or *Friend suggestions* can be used. Features such as geographical closeness can also be used. 2. Searching on federated networks. Using the social graph api. Social graph api gives all your online instances and friendship links(edges) to your friends on other social networks. Contacts list from our web accounts can be used to mark potential friends. These can be queried on the social graph api to find their global connectivity. Additionally people can upload their contacts list (or followers/fan list) and these can be searched for their accounts. I would like to make the approach finer and deliverables more granular in my final applications. Please let me know if I am still on track! Thanking you all, Ruturaj -- [Geekru2]
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