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Open Book
Facebook now has a stake through it from Microsoft. How long will it be before its rebranded facebook live ? Or someother related thingy.
Your task: To replicate the facebook application api and news feed for an open api equivalent.
Any profit should be split between those developers who’ve spent time on it, and some charitable causes….how about making the causes votable on ?
[ update : Almost superseeded already – see no ideas are really unique anymore ! http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ ]
Added by Ian Moss 9 months ago, last updated 6 months ago by Sam Clark
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The ideas here are public domain, ma laddo. If somebody does, it’s up to them to decide what they do with it.
The reasoning is simple. Let’s suppose somebody now produces it. They develop the code and start selling it. You claim they stole your idea. They claim they’ve never heard of you, this site or this page. What then?
To save everybody a lot of time, we say nobody stipulates anything around an idea.
However, the next phase of is to allow people to setup bounty prizes with criteria such as “must be open source”, “must work in all browsers”, “must conform to Gnome HCI guidelines” etc. and for anybody to contribute. That way, developers could “win” a few thousand pounds for developing a system proposed on here (providing enough people had thrown in fivers and tenners into the pot to make it that big).
Good idea though. How about tagging it with some tags, eh?
I have been approached by a client to develop a “facebook” like application for them, which will allow groups to talk and become acquainted behind closed doors, file share and generally do almost everything Facebook does well, minus the applications.
As with everything I do, this will be GPL licensed, so I’d be happy to throw my code back here for extension by someone else into Openbook.