Yeah, I sort of think that trying to do it through the wiki would be trying to reinvent the wheel, it is quite easy to embed another page inside the wiki, e.g do our social network through linkedin/wink and then embed it in a page on OWW, the only trouble is the more we outsource to other websites, the less control we have as a community and the more passwords people have to type in...
<br>John<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Jambon</b> <<a href="mailto:martin_jambon@emailuser.net">martin_jambon@emailuser.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I hesitated, but I think I should post it. <a href="http://people.wink.com">http://people.wink.com</a> is a<br>brand new service by <a href="http://wink.com">wink.com</a> which allows you to search through linkedin,<br>myspace and bebo profiles. Maybe more in the future.
<br><br>Maybe if there was a way of storing user's profiles on one of those sites,<br>then you would automatically benefit from the search engine.<br><br><br>Martin<br><br>On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Cumbers wrote:<br><br>> Sorry to have totally missed the meeting, I filtered it into the wrong
<br>> folder .. I like the directory idea, I wonder if there are other wiki's<br>> trying to implement similar ideas as this that have found other solutions?<br>> cheers,<br>> john<br>><br>> On 11/9/06, Jenny Nguyen <
<a href="mailto:jennyn@mit.edu">jennyn@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> I've started a discussion for implementing a directory. It's plain and<br>>> basic, but it should start a discussion on how we can best make a directory
<br>>> on OWW for users to post basic information about themselves, a link to<br>>> their<br>>> userpage, areas of expertise, etc. This could help users find<br>>> collaborators,<br>>> labs for post-doc, their soulmate, etc.
<br>>><br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Information_management/Directory">http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Information_management/Directory</a><br>>><br>>> Jenny
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