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December 1, 2005
Iteration 3 signed off
Iteration 3 was tagged and released into the wild yesterday. Right now you can see it at http://melt.staging.greenpeace.org , the code is here
(Note we're only hosting the 'latest' iteration at any time, so in a week or so the link will be to Iteration 4...)
Developments in the last week included
Being able to promote other users to 'own' a group you have set up
Being able to mark organisations within the system as 'approved'
Allowing approved organisations to 'approve' of other pieces of content
We also added a lot of location based functionality to the searches, although for now we only have data in the system for Japan and the Netherlands.
The most interesting part of last week was adding the approval process. Since Melt is intended to be used by many NGOs we felt that they would need a degree of reassurance before participating. Given how open Melt is anyone could turn up and post a 'Greenpeace press release' or an 'Friends of the Earth Scientific Report'. By accredditing organisations and allowing them to mark particular bits of content, or indeed users, as their own we provide a way of avoiding this.
(I learned yesterday that this goes some way to making us an attention network rather than a social network)
Future upgrades might include replacing the current text indication of approval with an icon or something similar.
The accreditation process itself will be an offline affair, the details of which still have to be worked out. But a phone number, some headed fax paper and something similar are likely to be involved.
Posted by Martin Lloyd at December 1, 2005 10:26 AM
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