Hey Bill,

How's the Ed stuff going. I've been checking in at DrupalEd.org and watching your posts on the list, but am swamped with some cool stuff happening over here in Hawaii.

Amazon Wishlist: We're going to be building some proprietary stuff (just because it would only be applicable for us) on top of this, but I wanted to get a basic Wishlist API module so other people could build off that. It looks pretty easy. There is a kick ass REST service through AWS so you can just hit http://www.awszone.com/scratchpads/aws/ecs.us/ListSearch.aws put in WishList for ListType and jeff@amazon.com for Email and you'll see an example. Just need a Drupal Wrapper API using drupal_http_request() to get a list, etc. I've got a good handle on that one so I could probably take most of that in the next couple days and send what I have to see if you guys think something should be added.

Friend's Activity: What did you think of my explanation on this one? I'm thinking of more of a watchdog_user module or something that will have a watchdog per user and then want to flush out the most modular way to tell modules to log to watchdog_user on certain actions. What is the best way to implement this in hook_nodeapi(), hook_comment(), hook_buddy() need to extend Buddylist for this, hook_taxonomy() for tagging notices, hook_votingapi() need to look into this one more...Thoughts? This one needs more collaboration I think.

ACL-Buddylist integration: I'm not even sure what I would want to do with this one yet, so I'm going to defer this on my end.

Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob@electronicinsight.com

Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

Hello, Rob,

We'd be glad to talk about the Amazon Wishlist, the Friend's Activity block, and ACL-Buddylist integration -- RE ACL/Buddlist integration, Mark Frederickson's aclfield code in his sandbox (http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/aclfield/) comes pretty close to getting this (and more!) done now --

Cheers,

Bill

Rob Barreca wrote:

Here are some current things I am working on for a project. Wanted to post here to see if anyone is working on something similar and was interested in working together:

    * Amazon Wishlist integration
    * Friends' activity block like Facebook: I'm still thinking about
      this. We can easily get node and comment Views with Buddylist
      like "My Friends' Recent Nodes", but we want an aggregated
      watchdog-like list that has other stuff too "Your friend Joe
      made friends with some user Rachel", "Some user Steve posted a
      comment on some node of yours", "Your friend Joe posted a
      comment on some other node", Voting, etc. I want to build this
      as flexible as possible so it can be contributed back. A new
      module that maybe uses Actions to perform a logging action on
      certain user operations. Not sure if that makes sense. But it's
      definitely like a watchdog log per user.
    * Pulling facebook profile info in from the Facebook API
    * Probably work on the Community Tags module for 5.x that was a
      clean up of my huge Tagadelic patch a while back so users can
      tag other users' nodes
    * Doing some invite stuff, so extending or cleaning up
      invite.module may be in order
    * Maybe some ACL-Buddylist integration to allow friends to have
      extra privileges (low priority)
    * Want to do some FOAF stuff like LinkedIn to see how far removed
      someone is from you (low priority)

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Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob@electronicinsight.com