The Trsst project (Twitter + RSS + Google Reader = Trsst social network) has some interesting ideas:
http://www.trsst.com/paper/ Quote: In Trsst, every user account is a digital wallet. Authors and individual pieces of content can receive secure and anonymous micro-payments of digital crypto-currency, enabling long- envisioned content monetization schemes where authors receive small payments each time their content is consumed, shared, or "liked". Mats On 09/05/2013 10:23 AM, Wendell wrote: > Mike Hearn had a rather cool idea about watermarking images with Bitcoin > addresses in order to facilitate auto-magically linking social networking > profiles: apparently even without API access, reasonably large user images > are available publicly via the major services (Facebook, Twitter). > > Since this process would necessarily be somewhat manual and would of course > be "undone" anytime the user changed his/her profile image, it is probably > not a solution for everyone. But it seems that this could be a helpful way to > at least _begin_ organizing Bitcoin around people and organizations in a way > that is broadly familiar. > > I haven't been able to get this to work myself, but Blockchain.info seems to > offer sending 'coin via Facebook: > https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-via > > There is also the very cute Bitcoins With Friends: > https://bitcoinswithfriends.com/ > > Most of the other apps that I have seen at one point or another have > vanished. I recall reading that Facebook was not particularly friendly to > them, hence the present interest in more subversive (?) ways of making those > connections. > > Again, I am not 100% sure that this is the correct place for it, but I'm > opening this thread to other such ideas in case anyone else wants to discuss > it. Our motivation is making Bitcoin easier to use, and we suspect that even > imperfect social network support will move us closer to that goal. > > -wendell > > grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 > >> Re-orienting Bitcoin around people and companies is something we wanted to >> do for a long time. How do you get an address linked to a personal profile? >> Someone was asking me about this last month and I suggested watermarking >> addresses into social network profile pictures. The advantage of that >> approach is every social network supports profile pictures and big ones like >> Facebook and Twitter allow querying of somebodies picture without needing >> any API or user authentication, eg: >> >> https://graph.facebook.com/i.am.the.real.mike/picture?type=large >> >> So obviously with such a thing you can send to any Facebook user who has >> configured their profile correctly. There's a library that implements >> watermarking that can survive social network recompression, but it is (doh) >> written in Java ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
