Re: Needz - a new classified service with federation

very interesting!

so let me try to understand how this works - suppose i'm selling a
pair of tickets for next week's Coldplay gig. I post it onto node A,
which is the node that i'm on. You are looking for Coldplay tickets,
but you happen to be on node B. How do my ad and your query find each
other? Is there a sort of DHT overlayed over all nodes, where ads are
forwarded to all other nodes, based on keywords?


ciao,
Michiel

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Ed Moore <ed@ocastalabs.com> wrote:
>
> I hope people on the list might be curious about a new service we've just
> launched called Needz. It's a classified listing service where anyone can
> list items for sale, items wanted, services offered or free give aways.
> Initially we've released an iOS app for Needz (available here) and it has a
> small web presence here (needz.net).
>
> Why notify the list? Because Needz has been built with a federated
> architecture, to enable broader distribution. Users can be spread across
> multiple independent domains and we use the OStatus protocols (Salmon,
> WebFinger, ActivityStreams etc) to pass messages and Ad comments between
> accounts. PubSubHubbub is also used to notify the search engine(s) of new
> data to be indexed.
>
> We've chosen the federated route hopefully for solid business reasons,
> although we're interested in any feedback on this aspect. If you compare the
> large incumbents we're up against such as Criagslist or eBay you can see
> it's not the technology we're competing against but brand awareness and
> scale. Federation should allow companies such as mobile carriers looking to
> offer new services to existing users to deploy a Needz system, hence growing
> their potential revenues while supporting growth of the overall Needz
> Network. If anyone wants to know more, please get in touch.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ed Moore, Ocasta Labs
> M: ed@ocastalabs.com
> T: +44 7714 242017
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 6 September 2012 07:55:26 UTC