Re: users vs topics

Hi Michiel, I agree that is better to start with something useful, 
specially if you are the one who is actually working on it :-)

But, at least for the record, a couple elements I am missing:

* contact or friend list
* content sets, such as pictures, blog posts, etc.


El 27/07/12 10:33, Michiel de Jong escribió:
> Hi Kingsley,
>
> i prefer to start with modeling the stuff we need first, so for users
> just avatar, a free-text full name, maybe city and gender, and then a
> list of tools (read, subscribe, comment, message). That way we can
> chart a big part of the federated social web already i think, except
> for things like mailing lists and chat channels. So that's what i
> wanted to bring up in this thread. Maybe i didn't phrase my question
> clearly enough, sorry.
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com>  wrote:
>> You need to model everything.
> Everything? although i doubt you really mean what you say there, i'm
> afraid that might be an uncomputable problem ;)
>
> When you write an application you should take care not to try to write
> an operation system instead. An application has a specific function,
> which is limited and is not 'it should do everything' (that is what
> operating systems and programming languages are for).
>
> if next year it becomes a big thing on the web to be friends with an
> elephant, then we might want to add a 'species' field to the
> useraddress.net search results, but for now that seems like overkill.
>
> as i thought a bit more about the concept of 'topics', i felt that
> maybe they are specific types of 'groups', because a chat session is
> defined ultimately by the people participating in it, and only
> secondarily by the topic that these people agreed on. it is also
> possible to have a group or group chat without a preset topic. So i
> think i might use 'group' instead of 'topic'.
>
> Anyway, it's just a proof-of-concept, so we can always change it later
> if we get new insights.

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