Coming Soon to Skills Log
A number of people have suggested features for Skills Log; some of which we already have planned; some are great suggestions which we’ll look at implementing. We are careful however about which features we factor in, there’s a lot to be said for less features and less code, but all suggestions are welcome nonetheless.
Some of the main features we’ll be introducing are as follows:
- Facebook Integration - allowing users to publish their skills log to Facebook and search the skills of their Facebook contacts. We also plan on supporting Facebook Connect so users can sign up to Skills Log using their Facebook ID.
- OpenSocial Integration - again allowing users to publish their skills log to websites that support OpenSocial, such as iGoogle, MySpace, Ning, and particularly business networks such as LinkedIn and XING.
- Groups - this feature is already under way and allows users to set up a group of other Skills Log users, and then search their skills, or view users by hierarchy. This will be particularly useful for companies to create a skill-searchable staff directory, embeddable as a ‘white-label’ group within a companies’ own Intranet or website.
- Opening up our API - with appropriate privacy controls, opening our API will allow developers to mix and mashup Skills Log data to create new applications or build on top of other applications.
- Job Searching - allowing users to search for jobs that closely match their skills. Rather than just searching using keywords as on current job sites, job searching using your skills and skill levels through Skills Log will be much more accurate.
- hResume Formatting - a microformat to add meta data to skills logs.
- OpenID support - allowing users to create a skills log using an ID provided by an OpenID provider.
- Twitter Integration - allowing users to publish their skills log updates to their Twitter stream.
- Improving Resources - to allow documents and videos to be uploaded or pulled in from Scribd, YouTube and other external websites.
Any comments on these planned features, or further suggestions are more than welcome!