On the Houston CFUG mailing list recently we've been discussing social networking - which ones people use, what they use them for, that sort of thing.
It seems to me that there might be a need for a microblogging tool like Pownce or Twitter in organizations that block such sites like large corporations, government agencies, etc. It doesn't need to be a very fancy application. You need to have users sign up, log in, find other users, and post messages.
I suppose the messages should be able to be found in different formats:
One of the other things I'm considering is to use a framework or not. Or more to the point, which framework? What I'd like to do is have a build for each of the more popular frameworks out there - Fusebox, Mach-II, Model-Glue, ColdBox any I'm missing? This way, no matter what framework you run on you'd have a version that would run on your framework of choice. It'd also be interesting to see how well each version performs. The downside to this is I'm not an expert (or even a beginner) when it comes to most of the frameworks other than Fusebox. Maybe some of the luminaries in those communities will be able to offer help when I get to them. Maybe I'd need a 'plain jane' version too, for those who don't want or use a framework? Seems like that could be a problem all on its own.
I'll try to get a basic prototype together soon and post it. Until then, any thoughts or feedback from the community out there?
Finally, I've got a name for the project too (as you may have guessed from the subject line of this post. I'm going to call it PingPong. Sort of like your pinging your friends....
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