Re: [Apc-aa-coders] ning.com inspiration for next version of AA

[Mitra <mi...@mi...>]

Mark Graham and I went to a presentation by one of Ning's developers 
last week - pretty impressive.

It seems to me that it is an application building an environment, 
with API's designed around information sharing, tagging, and social 
networking, also around mapping.

The mapping component seems more of an alternative to Mapas or 
Google-Maps (which it uses) than an alternative to AA. But the 
structure seems at first glance to be interesting.

If someone wants to play with it, create a Ning account and apply for 
a "Developer" account. If it gets turned down let Mark or myself know 
and we'll make the introduction to the developer and see if we can 
get you an account that way.

- Mitra


At 5:10 PM +0100 31/10/05, Marek Tichy wrote:
>From the docs it's not clear it's a shared database, one can use 
>SOAP (a polished XML/RPC) to fetch (thus share) the data. I quite 
>like SOAP.
>I doubt it's a shared database as in the whole Ning is just a bunch 
>of useful php classes, and you write apps in php (= can read DB 
>password  = that's why we don't have php in AA).  I think they mean 
>you have several apps within your workspace and they can exchange 
>data by calling each other methods for fetching content.
>
>BTW, we have talked with Mark about adding tagging into ActionApps. 
>Haven't done much on that front and I'm not sure I will, but doesn't 
>do any harm to mention....
>
>Marek
>
>>
>>As far as I have heard, Ning is designed to create 'social 
>>software'  - i.e. friendster/orkut, classified ad, del.icio.us type 
>>sites where  people can share content, categorize by tagging etc. 
>>etc.
>>
>>The central idea here is also a 'shared database', so that multiple 
>>apps on the same server can access the same data. It looks 
>>interesting, but I didn't look much at the details. Did anyone try 
>>it  out?
>>
>>regards,
>>
>>Zoltan.
>>
>>
>>On Oct 31, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Norbert Brazda wrote:
>>
>>>Have anoyone seen www.ning.com? It is a content store with XML 
>>>object API for building custom applications in php. Among other 
>>>things it supports flexible data structure and sharing of content 
>>>between applications. While applications built on ning.com are 
>>>open  sourced (and you can clone them to start your own) the store 
>>>itself  is not.
>>>
>>>I think this is how AA should look in its next version.
>>>
>>>Added value might be AA's open source licence, better content 
>>>sharing, user interface for building applications (non-developers 
>>>like me who have idea but not enough skills to write php 
>>>application would appreciate that), etc.
>>>
>>>
>>>Here you will find more information:
>>>http://developerdocumentation.ning.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>norbert
>>>br...@ch...
>>>
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