"Text Tribe" for People Doing Strange Things with Electricity IV
For this tribe pieces will use XML to transfer textual data over a TCP/IP network. This will also allow pieces to grab data from the Internet, interact with web-based interfaces, Twitter, etc.
contact: eric [dot] mcneill [at] gmail
None of these details are finalized yet, just some proposals...
- Pieces will use web (HTTP) connections for transferring XML.
XML Format
I think we'll want to allow for a variety of functionality:
- A "say" tag to just tell another piece something
- An "invite" tag (with a return address) for inviting a later response/registering with the other piece
- An "ask" tag for just pulling info
- Perhaps some mechanism for advertising properties about your piece, like how much text it can handle, whether it can talk to other tribes, etc.