Re: Building a paid App Market

btw. this would be a good training for using good relations also...

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On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 16:09 +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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