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im brainstorming on the use of opensocial gadgets for demosceners registered in social networks using pouet database. anyone wants to have a crack at it?

no answers? weird.

i don't really like the idea. when i'm using social networks, i'm using my realname, which has no business in the scene.

well you wouldnt have to use any of it unless you'd want to :D

i was just thinking of things sharing taste in demos, knowing what demosceners live in cities you're visiting or attending a demoparty you might be attending. many of the ideas shown in video from the link i posted can be reused for demos, demosceners, demoparties. it would be an interesting way to reach out to users watching those social network profiles into what the demoscene actually is. beats posting a link to wikipedia definition of demoscene.

no one has any interest in this? p01? gasman?
odd..

You better do something first to motivate the others.

we could even integrate this with sceneid somehow... hmmm...

Dip: everybody knows your real name is Gerhard von Clausterschwimmer, so no use in hiding that any longer!

integration smintegration..

it's for people who can't integrate information using their own brains. smitegration indeed

this is all so difficult. the internet is becoming too hip for me! i'm starting to feel like the grandpa who has trouble learning that "triangle" means "play"!

ps: Right now I'm not really convinced that social networking websites have anything to offer existing real-world social networks like the demoscene which already have established communication channels (unless you consider poking people and inviting them to become pirates or ninjas to be a positive selling point). I guess Opensocial has the potential to not suck as much as Facebook (because it's not tied to a single buggy spam-filled piece of shit platform) but at the moment I just can't work up any enthusiasm for it, sorry :-/ You never know, I might come round to it in the future - part of my day job is to keep on top of this stuff, after all...

gasman++

And let's not forget the invitations to become a werewof!

i see your point and i also quite dislike those kind of networks but considering most of everyone ends up having an account somewhere it could be useful from an outreach point of view. just thinking out loud on possibilities. oh well

ps: I think it's a good idea. Optional though, not like "Facebook platform me beautiful" :) It should be talked about in the context of SceneID I guess. Are you thinking more like Last.FM of demos? :)

it's the worst fucking idea ever and i'm totally against it.
why?
because pouet needs to be WORKING first instead of ducttaping all new technologies into it.

as soon as pouet reaches a complete rewrite and actually lives up to the "web2.0" standard, yes, it will work. at the moment, DO NOT WANT.

the future crew with turn in their grave (just a figure of speech) knowing that their little underground scene discusses the possibilities to hook it up with FACEBOOK! :D

dunno, i never thought this before but pouet.net was world first web2.0 because it has provided user created context ;D

gargaj: i wasnt thinking of using this frontend, just the access to the database to do something else entirely..

gloom: yes, something like last.fm of demos would be nice for example, plenty of diferent ideas could be easily implemented i guess..

101% agreeing with gargaj.