[Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

[EVANS, KENNETH (WOODY)]

Let's hear more...

 

How does an open source e-mail project work, and how do you integrate it
with Search Wikia?

And why Litepost rather than... Brand X?

 

 

Woody 

 

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From: search-l-bounces at wikia.com [mailto:search-l-bounces at wikia.com] On
Behalf Of Nathan Braun
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:46 PM
To: jer; search-l at wikia.com
Subject: Re: [Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

 

On 5/2/07, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:

	
	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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