Gnomepal

- Groups of users. Plenty of uses, but one example is a user could be part of certain groups, or, for example, on a Tech Support community, "areas of expertise." Users would be appropriately ranked on their content or comments "answering" questions based on their groups.

- Desktop integration. While what "Gnomepal" strives to be is a form of a web application, bringing desktop integration in the future is definitely something to think about. For a lot of things on the web, I don't even launch a browser. To twitter I use a Vista sidebar gadget. To upload photos to Flickr, I use Live Photo Gallery (kudos to Microsoft for adding out-of-the-box support). Or to write a new blog post, Live Writer. While desktop apps could be developed by third-parties, adding the APIs necessary in the web-application at this point in time is something to think about.

- When I insert a photo or video into new content, automatically upload it to my Flickr or Youtube account. I don't want that photo/video to have already pre-existed on my account.

- A standard login system for all installations and possibly a central relational database. What I mean is that not only would you be able to see the activity of one person's profile in a single community, but see whatactivity they have on other communities as well. Have they created content with the same tags in another community? Have they commented on similar content? etc The issue with this is technical limitations.

- API for web-based mobile support. When I take a photo with my Treo or iPhone, I want to be able to upload it to Flickr, create a new blog post about it, and Twitter it all in one go.

- Sharing content between communities. Have APIs in place where I can easily click a button and share content on one community with another one that I'm a part of. Because of copyright or duplicating content with advertising income concerns, not only would it be an option to allow for easily copying certain amounts of content, but creating new content of your own which redirects the reader to another community. All appropriate tags, photos, or videos should be pulled as well.

- Take this into the gaming community. What if I could add an Xbox Live Gamertag to my profile and automatically have any of my Xbox Live friends which happen to be a part of the community or even OTHER communities added? That would be absolutely great...

- The same thing for social networks such as Myspace or Facebook friends.

- Tools or services for "serious" media producers. Comparatively, YouTube has lower quality video than what video producers would want. Certainly, content should be put on YouTube for sheer distribution and to get the stuff out there, but also for other video services. The same thing for music artists, not only with Myspace Music or last.fm, but music-specific services for startup bands. Members of a community could then easily discovery other's members interests in music including these startups.

- Possibly storefront integration for these artists? I know I saw a Drupal storefront module somewhere...

- What about if I own/run multiple communities and want to push out content to all of them at the same time?

- Integration between forums and the content. Have an option to not only push content to the main page, but also a specific forum. This would be great to work the other way around. I create a new forum post with an announcement, it gets pushed to the main page. I post a forum "sticky" topic about common questions which are asked, it gets sent to the appropriate page or a manually selected page within the community.

I look forward to the other systems being put in place to facilitate suggestions and discussion.

- Adam
http://www.adamreyher.com