A unified user bar across all sites.

(like the bar at the bottom in Facebook - but at the top instead)

Guru Mahendran, insert-name-here

• user control:
  • not logged in: log in/register
  • logged in: user info + controls for log out, edit user settings, “subscribe to page”, messages

• bookmarks
  • not logged in: bookmarks for key apps
  • logged in: user configured bookmarks (can be anything, from a fav club, to google)
• search
• text ads

• I suggest using the ruby gem “authlogic” for user control, works like a charm – Guru
  • Oooh, looks good! But we'll wait until we hear from James. – Raf
  • I imagine it would work well enough, since the backend for the user control will essentially be an XML/RPC server, you should be able to have the appropriate Rails methods simply hand off the work to said server – James