Talk:Profile

From an OpenBC comment to Sven:

I've been getting into this a fair bit, as it provides a lot of the functionality Aran and I have been talking about in the context of Peer development. It's like that "Plaxo" service where you get everyone to update their own contact info and it hooks into MS Outlook so you don't have to worry about maintaining contact info. Except it goes into the networked-online-business-card aspect a fair bit.

It's weak on the definition of terms though. Like how you can enter under haves "...a great appetite!" or whatever, rather than being able to choose categories of products or services, which could then be accurately mapped to their respective "needs".

And the way it does documents doesn't seem to hot, although I must admit to not having played around with it very much yet.

So I was thinking, what if we combined it with the doc-management capabilities of mediawiki and then eventually use a flash interface for it? Combine that with sorting out the categorisation (we could just look at how trademe has done it) and we've got ourselves a winner.

What do you think, is it worthwhile and/or doable? Just as a aparallel dev track to the peer dev, which will allow us to develop content for the nodal environment but just use conventional tools. Hey maybe we should get Aran to set up a skype account so we can have conference calls. It's easiest just to talk about this kind of stuff.--Milan 21:13, 28 Jun 2006 (NZST)