This week the group was formed and we began initial brainstorming of ideas. The ideas suggested were:
Social Radio (Jonny)
During long working sessions I would often exchange music with a friend (via linking to songs on Spotify) and listen to the the same music roughly in-sync. This suggestion is for a sort of shared playlist which plays in sync, and members of the group all listen together and can suggest and vote on music for the playlist.
Time Shifting Social Networks (Jonny)
This idea is to effectively delay the display of posts on facebook or twitter by the difference in time zone from the location it was posted to where it was viewed, allowing someone’s day to be seen in context rather than just getting a dump of posts at 9am when you first log on.
Numerous problems were identified with this idea such as if the post is posted in a timezone behind the location it is read in.
Cross site photo tagging (Jonny)
Photo tagging works on a number of sites, including facebook, flickr, orkut, etc. However if you, for example, wanted to see all of the photos of a particular person, you would have to view each site individually. Furthermore there are many photographs online which are not in a community which supports tagging, and these are not grouped with the tags inside the communities.
This proposal would include a system which would allow tagging photos from any website which are then grouped together and can be traversed and modified in a similar way to the currently existing tagging systems.
Universal Forum Client (Jonny)
This would include creating a single interface (either web based or as a standard application) similar to an email client or RSS reader which combines together many forums. Rather than simply reading the RSS feeds of forums this system would support the features beyond basic RSS such as making replies, private messages, etc.
Universal Blog Search (Sumair)
This system would allow for a single search to go across many blogs from the many different blogging providers and provide the results in a unified manner.
After discussing a number of these ideas and the pros and cons of each we agreed that the cross site photo tagging idea is the most useful and most unique. We did come up with a number of issues surrounding the project including ownership of tags (who can untag) and issues when the photo is on a private website (such as orkut or picassa). These issues will be discussed in future blog posts.
Naming ideas were briefly discussed but there are still no ideas really jumping out at the moment. We will need to finalise this in the next week or two.
The groupname was decided to be Tag4Fun.
For the next meeting: