Re: [buddycloud-dev] email metadata

On 26 July 2013 09:12, hpl <hpl1989@gmail.com> wrote:

> I also very like the use of EMail. EMail has been a success for dozens of
> years. It's natural federation. If we can overlay the social functions on
> top of it, a decentralized social network is readily available. It's hard
> to ask your friends to create new accounts on a DSN, but everyone has email
> and we only need more social functions.
>
> Another advantage is that, email can **gracefully degrade**. You don't
> need everyone to adopt a protocol to jumpstart the system. People who use
> social enabled clients can extract more meta data from the multipart
> codings. People who do not use that can still get information in degraded
> format, e.g. plaintext, HTML.
>
> We have been trying this in SNSAPI. Since email is a less active channel
> than others, we have not designed the meta data. Currently, only plaintext
> data is sent. Looking forward to sophisticated design.
>

+1 for integration of email

There can be a danger to take this paradigm to far tho, and use email at
the exclusion of all else.  email has it's place as part of an overall FSW
strategy, mainly as a message delivery address an as one of a few memorable
identification strings.


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> Pili
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> On 25/7/13 6:34 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
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>> Thanks for that link. I agree that the *integration* of mail with other
>> distributed social media protocols makes a lot of sense (network
>> effects!).
>>
>> I think it might also be interesting for other FSW people.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
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>>
>> Simon Tennant:
>>
>>> This poppped up on Hacker News and is a very interesting idea. I'm
>>> guessing
>>> you could bolt it onto email and hope for the best. Better yet, we have
>>> channels and ATOM formatted posts.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/samsquire/**ideas#1-email-metadata<https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#1-email-metadata>
>>>
>>> I liked this example:
>>>
>>>     - receive an invoice? it is added to your accounting software
>>>
>>> We get this for free in buddycloud because of the atom container type.
>>>
>>> Nice nice.
>>>
>>> I'll make sure to list this as a benefit on the bc website.
>>>
>>> S.
>>>
>>>
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