Social networking

[R.T.]

In that case, I still wouldn't recommend rebuilding the wheel.
Leverage the existing tech, that's what it's there for:

http://developers.facebook.com/
http://developer.myspace.com/community/
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
http://openid.net/

Unless your name is "Google" or "Facebook", it's going to be next to
impossible to show people value in *yet another account* for *yet
another walled garden*.



On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Mike Ward <unforgiven24-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> About it failing - that's entirely true if he's planning on just tossing up
> yet another site on the internet for general consumption, but I don't think
> it's so true if he's planning on using this for a specific group. I've seen
> a small locally-run website for a smallish suburb run their own youtube-ish
> site, and while they'll never have ten thousand users, that wasn't their
> goal, either. They use it to share city council meetings, city event videos,
> that sort of thing. In terms of that, it's a success.
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:10 PM, R. T. <spamstinksmmmkay-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> You have internet access in the year 2008, and you have NEVER
>> encountered Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Orkut, Bebo, Classmates,
>> Epinions, LinkedIn, etc.?
>>
>> I'd recommend playing with those before attempting to implement one
>> yourself, since it's pretty much guaranteed to fail.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Lance F. Squire <lance-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Anyone here use/ have good experience with an ensy to set-up 'Social
>> > Networking' site?
>> >
>> > Never played with one myself. Not really sure what one should have....
>> >
>> > Lance
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