

Of course, using rss or atom or edi standards helps, it depends what you're trying to communicate about. I think the most important thing is to agree the schema between the parties. 1.How does one go about building this? Skill level required? How long would it take to attain that skill level? Wish me luck with that one.Ĭlick to expand. Oh, and the other thing is to compel the social media offerings to have open apis which do not require their client and give them no visibility of content, and break up their control of marketplace and content. How hard could it be for London to create an online community ride-sharing/taxi service for the benefit of the community? Obviously the answer to that is not in the scope of this forum, but for sure, there is nothing technically to stop privacy enhancing message-passing open standards to achieve great applications. However, it's not at all clear to me that Uber has the interests of Londoners at heart - it pays (low) wages and few benefits to the drivers, and minimal corporate tax. But this has nothing to do with the utility of the service, which many find useful. As a specific example, Uber has recently been refused a licence to continue operating in London. I think the only way to counter this is to have community-based initiatives which are genuinely community-enhancing. We're in a phase at the moment where we have a dismal and consumer-exploitative business model. The problem of course is not technology but business model. This is quite different to the eyeball-grabbing vendor aggrandisement we have at the moment. It does not need the cloud apart from a message exchange process and some form of hopefully distributed and privacy respecting directory. Those offers would be automatically processed and displayed. with offers, based on some agreed tags in the messages. So, for example, if you express the wish to visit somewhere, it would send a message to an online marketplace (a bid), to solicit offers from vendors etc. My view is that a more secure way of operating is to have message parsing and display clients under your complete control, backed by automation on the client which follow policies that you want to have happen. But, apart from local RSS programs (including home-grown ones), I do not have an EDI solution.
