[Ocs] OCS idea: Social product & service networks

[Frank Karlitschek]

Hehe,

definitely an interesting idea.

Reminds me a bit of Amazons Mechanical Turk.
http://aws.amazon.com/mturk/

It´s something like an RESTfull interface for the third world.
Obviously not the most humanistic concept.


Cheers
Frank



On 16.05.2011, at 16:18, Josef Spillner wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Yesterday, I was thinking on the train back from the OCS sprint about these 
> jokes we made about the possible real-world implications of OCS. The scope of 
> both social networks and software stores extends indeed to the real world in 
> some cases.
> 
> There are some social networks in which persons offer human services (e.g. 
> consulting services), technical services (e.g. travel booking) or products 
> (e.g. ananas) in a structured way.
> As I'm looking into an OCS-compliant RESTful API to Noosfero, a framework for 
> such social networks, it appeared to me that we may handle this by 
> interpreting the "content" on a slightly more abstract level.
> 
> For example, cirandas.net is a vivid Brazilian Noosfero instance in which 
> entrepreneurs can found companies and trade their products, which apparently 
> can be modelled in OCS already except that there won't be a download link. The 
> network also lists real shops which sell the products, which cannot be 
> modelled at the moment.
> However, what can be modelled are downloads of files which describe in some 
> domain-specific language the characteristics of the products and services.
> 
> Another example is my own crowdserving.com, which is not a production network 
> but rather a showcase for academic stuff related to the collaborative Internet 
> of Services.
> 
> It might be too weird and too much of a change for 2.0, but nevertheless an 
> interesting thought exercise if social product and service interactions (think 
> also marketplaces for used products like eBay) could be integrated into the 
> desktop and fused with sharing of digital goods.
> 
> Josef
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