Openmoko Bug #952: Just some cool ideas I have been joting down.
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#952: Just some cool ideas I have been joting down.
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Reporter: rolyataylor2 at yahoo.com | Owner: mickeyl
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Applications & Dependencies | Version: unspecified
Severity: wishlist | Resolution:
Keywords: | Blocking:
Blockedby: |
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Comment(by Archimedes):
Me and some friends are working on a webbased social network thing which
is planned to incoperate the location based features (like games, where
are my pals, POI,... - Point 1,2,7 and 10 of your ideas) you mentioned.
The initial language will be german, but multi-language capability is one
basic feature we will support.
The creation of a client on the openmoko might be a problem as I am the
only developer in our team who knows something else than PHP (well,
Java... but I'm studying computer science and am good in learing new
programming languages) and I already have to do many things like project
management, privacy policy, core development/programming and security
checks (PHP is not known for enforcing security so I have to check that by
myself).
And we're not openmoko centered, so openmoko is only one of several
platforms we want to support (for example iPhone [3G/GSM Version and old
one with GSM triangulation] as it has a larger userbase - but I like my
open OpenMoko much more than that locked down fruit bul... stuff :-D)
Though the soonest point we will be implementing basic location based
services is after we have a working backend, Webinterface and good privacy
management features (very important!).
As a basic client/server system we may build the "where am I, where are my
friends"-feature [http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/visualgps/
VisualGPS] looks very promising, but in the long run we may create our own
client (I will try to make it open source, but I'm not the only one having
something to say about that. But the protocol to update location and pull
locations of friends will be open so anyone may create his own client).
But right now we are still in a planning phase, so '''I can't make any'''
promises - not even that we start the whole thing as we need some severe
investions (at least for our measures) and maybe start a company (like a
british Limited) as legal threads are a common method to pull the
competition out of business and we don't want to be put to liability with
our private property (but we won't operate profit oriented ;-)).
One thing on wifi based "SMS": There is already something called IM (like
Jabber - yeah, and AIM, ICQ, MSN,...) which suits your ideas perfectly :-P
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