a must read from MIT plus thoughts

Also check out Yahoo 360 we really we really need to define what makes us different from the start, a clean intuitive interface is #1, I think keeping the API open and allowing users to create modules will also be important as well as linking with other products! Google encourages the creation of google applications modules. Yahoo, Ebay and Amazon also have open API's Has anyone seen the Google Maps Craig’s Lst housing mashup? (this link is to one of them, apparently there are several)
Recommended reading O'reily, Google Hacks (latest addition), Yahoo Hacks, Spider Hacks.

The Google has little easily configurable standalone modules mostly written in Pearl using Soap.

I browsed Yahoo Hacks in the bookstore today and it seemed similar. If we can leverage the power players we have a chance to steal a march on the competition and get noticed. Social networking is nowhere near mature but there are many players.

I think an aggressive release schedule is necessary, but the product has to be creditable from the start and we will need to stay on a continuous improvement path, somewhat of an always in Beta Approach (doable in opensourse.) In my opinion we will need to encourage coding participation as soon as is feasible.

I'm posting links to Semantic info. I don't know how useful this is but if we can follow the coding standards from the start we can use that as a hook to interest participation of people with interesting ideas.

Cheers All

Tom

More to come ..... Semantic web links, Google API stuff, and Paul's PHP matrix sites.

Look for a survey draft next week!

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Again Cheers all!

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