Planning
Tara Hunt commented about building ways and means to get things in and out of moonrise and pointed us to her post on this. We’ve really taken heed to this idea, and are focused on no more features at the moment, other than these ultimate goals:
- Make an API to post and get data easily from moonrise
- Partner with a service, or build an interface that lets you post from mobiles
I have to admit that some of the current planning was feature-focused and that we needed this jolt to get things right. Thanks Tara!
In the immediate future, we’re resting on the dilemma of several directions, not necessarily islands on their own:
- do we change focus on uploading your own photos and videos?
- do we stick to finding media from your search, and in the case of photos, ranked by interestingness? In other words, what we have right now.
- do we keep what we have now, and focus on an API, allowing any app to post, authenticate and get a social object with reference to the original source in a way that works? An easy example is to authenticate with your FlickR account, and using your own photos to allow you to make personal photo posts on moonrise.
The third one looks far more interesting and that seems our choice, since it relates to someone elses’ media, and given the right permissions, fosters discovery between people. There’s already many services that let you upload your own content. Either way, a ramp to upload your own flickr photos would be good enough to tap into the need for people to upload photos and videos personal to them, adding reality to a feeling.
Also, follow what people are saying about moonrise on tweetscan and blogs.
Amit