[Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

[Nathan Braun]

On 5/2/07, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:
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> Open and interoperable search infrastructure is the key to a future
> where one of humankind's greatest creations isn't gated through
> corporations and black boxes.


I totally agree!  In fact, for a while now, I have begun to feel the same
way about email -
Why are we entrusting our most personal records to billion-dollar Search
Corporations??!

IMHO, email should also generally support and be run on an open, extensible
infrastructure, as well - not gated in by Big Corps. & Black Boxes.

So here is my modest proposal to this group at the present time:

- I would seriously be willing to offer Litepost (a soon-to-be-released new
open source email product) to Wikia, Wikipedia or another similar charitably
benevolent organization as a new extensible "open webmail" platform (along
the same lines as Thunderbird, but for the web) if there was/is genuine
interest in such a project.
 (In fact, I was originally thinking of calling Litepost "wikimail," but I
thought that could a) be potentially too confusing and b) possibly violate
implicit trademarkage.)

- Or is that/this proposal totally outside of the scope of this project?

- It DOES seems interesting, if ironic, that all the major search companies
(with the exception of No. 4 Ask.com) all have complimentary email
services.  I wonder if Wikia would potentially be interested in this
endeavour?  Or if it is indeed peripheral/parallel to what they are trying
to accomplish?

-etc.

But please let me know if there is interest, or if there would be a more
suitable place to pursue this project.

Again, this is the first, last and only time I will even mention it here -
and only because I wanted to gauge interest (if any).

Warmest regards,

Nathan Braun
http://litepost.com


PS Some VERY rough algebra: Wikipedia + Jabber + US = Wikia
Wikipedia (open encycl) + Jabber (open IM) + Wikia (open search) + US =
Litepost?  (where's the standards-based open webmail???)
 or is this math too ambitious??  :)
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