Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-18 Thread Albert Abril
@Anand What's the name? Or some link? Thanks. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Anand Vaidya wrote: > I have seen an app that does almost what you mean on my freshly installed > kubuntu desktop > > The app shows who is geographically nearby and (s)he need not be our > "friend" already, most likel

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-18 Thread Anand Vaidya
I have seen an app that does almost what you mean on my freshly installed kubuntu desktop The app shows who is geographically nearby and (s)he need not be our "friend" already, most likely have similar interests (in this case KDE).

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Atkins
http://pinboard.in gives me a list of people to check out based on their bookmarking history. I don't know the details of the algorithm and there's no flexibility in refining the recommendations but I've found some interesting people to add to my 'network'. You can only see the username of the per

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread pbreit
With delicious possibly going away there could be an opportunity. Just add the distance component.

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This discussion is in perfect timing for me. I'm coming back to this community and still I'm learning the basics, but I have already thought some project to make in order to learn web2py that are similar with this idea. I would talk about this pro

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread Albert Abril
IMHO, I think that the best feature of facebook is that you can share things (links, video, music), with a subgroup of friends. In example, you if you have a group of friends that you know that they love music, you share music videos with them. (and only with them). Another example, the familiar ch

Re: [web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread Lorin Rivers
Actually, Facebook also uses social graphs to identify people you may know. This part of it is a pretty tough problem, but there are some pretty sharp people on this list… On Jan 17, 2011, at 13:43 , Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Most social network assue you know who your friends are and allow you

[web2py] social network idea

2011-01-17 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Most social network assue you know who your friends are and allow you to share info with your friends. How about the opposite? Something like a bookmarking app that tells me who my friends should be based on physical distance and recent common bookmarks? It seems to me the main problem to me is th