Re: Needz - a new classified service with federation

Excerpts from Ed Moore's message of 2012-09-05 20:33:05 +0000:
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> 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). 
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> Many thanks, 
> 
> Ed Moore, Ocasta Labs
> M: ed@ocastalabs.com
> T: +44 7714 242017

Hi Ed,

Interesting development!

I would like to suggest your shortly also checking this article:
http://www.shareable.net/blog/an-api-for-sharing

And invite you to consider joining those 2 IMO related groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/api-for-sharing
http://www.w3.org/community/community-io/

Cheers! :)

Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 12:19:51 UTC