A Discussion on ThePopulus on Facebook’s Developers Forum

Well since someone started talking about a global API, then I will share my plan

I am working on a/the venture, fully funded to [====], to start executing on the strategy to get us all to what an interconnected world is (not aggregated world). I am going to append below something I just wrote in another email:

Google is trying to link up all the social networks by coming in as the mothership, or eater of worlds, engulfing one after the other. This approach, is what one would assume an aggregator would do, because it does assimilate. But assimilation across societies and cultures diverse is a difficult thing. We should, as mankind, stay a pangeaa, if the sole driver of change or maintenance of status quo, is to come together to improve efficiency but its not.

ThePopulus, is approaching social network connectivity with the same mindset, but a different approach. While Social Stream sees a platform as the infrastructure that will allow all to touch all, ThePopulus goes about it in an easier, more intuitive, current and cheaper way. We see apps (applications in an Open framework environment (Open API)) as possessing the key to connecting everybody. Thats because every app connection embodies the reason for the link (for fun, for love, for play, for work). Google does not come up with a vision of what the interconnectivity will do specifically, other than a resource saving stance.

ThePopulus’ sole existence is to allow people to finally meaningfully connect online,, creating functional links (vs. fleeting unsubstantiated un-monetzable friendship links) exchange information, establish standards. For example, an dating app will run that relationship to connect lovebirds across a MySpace/Facebook divide. Now, the Social Stream platform hopes to provide this kind of interconnectivity. but ThePopulus drives these kinds of relationships to foster interconnectivity directly.

We only need to ask ourselves, are standards across countries the same, do we need to become Earth as one global citizenship? No, but we remain (quite) free to travel from one country to another. Traversing past different customs officials,, security standards, kinds of x-ray machines at an airport, one thing remains small yet links us all, ….a passport. An app is like a passport, a recognizable standard of something functional across two bodies, but gets a lot done, and gets you there easier. If we create something that enables these relationships to develop, we get to the end game scenario of social networking before Google does. That is what I am trying to build with ThePopulus, and I welcome any suggestion, but importantly, for enthusiasts who agree with what I am saying to join me.

You replied to your post on Aug 24, 2007 at 8:09 AM

I add, and how will this happen? Well we will create an API that will continue to tackle the new ones that open up, leaving Apps that live off our ecosystem to worry about the end user, not the larger host structure — They continue to do what they’re good at, while we (ThePopulus) find “ways” between the systems to execute the connections *Social Stream will look to just assimilate them all and see what goes* (Note: This would seem logical but is brute).

And we will be a living breathing organism kept alive by Apps, and that is the beauty of it all. We’re not a Google standing over your shoulders. We faciliate, not delegate.

All seems difficult, but not illogical and not unachievable. But I need more brain capital to help me