I’ve been pontificating all weekend on this. There’s a lot to be noodled out still, but progress is being made!
Random thoughts, chatboard and not:
- Taking forum suggestions, I’ll be doing a UI mockup sometime this week.
- The best way for this to work is connection aggregation like bittorrent for the shared bits. Sure, one guy started with his garden photos, but if everyone clicks the thumbnail, why can’t they help send the 1.1 megabyte 5 megapixel full image to the next guy that does?
- If the connected machines keep track of who’s fastest, you don’t even need the application to at least view the shared space. The fastest machine can update a webspace of group choosing with a snapshot of the desktop every X minutes or seconds.
- The graphic tools may be best as Object oriented ones, like the old macdraw toolset, or the current illustrator set. Over a LAN, this isn’t an issue and bitmaps would be fine, but I’d like this to work smoothly across the internet also.
- This would be FANTASTIC over bonjour across a company LAN!
- Encryption of the connection might be cool, but not necessarily for the first version
- $900 of surplus computers from a university take a while to load and unload. Ouch!
Back tomorrow or Tuesday with more thoughts. This is your app too, and I’ll consider any suggestions you may have!
-MW
