Re: Building a paid App Market

On 8/7/12 10:23 AM, Jürgen Jakobitsch wrote:
> btw. this would be a good training for using good relations also...
+1

Kingsley
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> wkr turnguard
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> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 16:09 +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> On 7 August 2012 16:05, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
>> wrote:
>>          On 8/7/12 9:10 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>                  Now that we have a few social systems progressing
>>                  nicely.
>>                  
>>                  Do people think it's the right time to start working
>>                  on a paid app market.
>>                  
>>                  The idea of the web as the intersection of information
>>                  spaces, could apply to apps too.  ie to make apps that
>>                  are as compatible as possible with other app eco
>>                  systems, but also to allow you to 'deploy to the web',
>>                  and add in a payment system to encourage people to
>>                  build apps.
>>                  
>>                  Perhaps it might be possible to hook in payswarm as a
>>                  possible payments system.
>>                  
>>                  If anyone is interested in this idea, it's something
>>                  I'd be happy to work on, with maybe trying to get a
>>                  proof of concept ready by end of next month in time
>>                  for TPAC.
>>                  
>>                  Any thoughts, design ideas, issues?
>>          
>>          
>>          Interested in the idea, but need specifics fleshed out re.
>>          roles of WebID, ACLs, and Certificates as license mechanism
>>          etc..
>>
>> So my initial thought was to try and create a simple web 3.0 platform
>> using drupal 7 and a webid login.
>>
>> Then an app catalogue similar to : https://5apps.com/demos/
>>
>> Then look at payments integration, which hopefully can be plugged in
>> via payswarm
>>
>> After a proof of concept, aim to bootstrap as many existing app
>> stores/centers/markets as possible e.g mobile (android, windows, ios
>> etc.) and web facebook, chrome, mozilla
>>
>> thoughts?
>>   
>>          
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>>          
>>          Kingsley Idehen
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>>          OpenLink Software
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