I've tried some examples accessing bitshres_client started at port 5000 for example, but now it looks I have problems with cross origin allowed. Does anyone have any idea ?

Looks like you are using JS to access bitshares_client.  Take a look at https://github.com/BitShares/web_wallet - it's a good example of JS application communticating with with the wallet.

Quote from: valzav on December 03, 2014, 11:19:36 pm

Just talked to BM, he has a concern regarding coupons - when faucet issues coupon it creates IOU and passes it to user, so regulators may consider faucet a money transmitter business. What do you think?

Is there any way to make it peer-to-peer "redeemable"? That is, a group of us who had access to a community account could go in regularly and choose to tip/donate to users who submitted coupons? Just brainstorming here. Or give a group of trusted users 20 BitUSD each that they would agree to spend on tips for faucet users. Faucet users would present their coupons somewhere, we would tip them from our individual stashes, and their coupons would move off the checklist as having been handled? Memo: "Welcome to BTS. Contact me if you have Q's". Etc.

Yes, it can be a kind of p2p redeemable - I've just added support for coupon redemption API to the Wallet's GUI (still experimental, not going to production yet), so theoretically anyone can run a faucet that is able to issue coupons and let the wallet to redeem them via API.

Quote from: valzav on December 03, 2014, 03:00:03 pm

UIA creation/issuance is going to be back into the GUI in next release

Good to know.  Should we be advertising delegate spots for developers who can develop these features more? (the bonus features I outlined). 

We are soon to push the grassroots marketing initiative 'getting hired by the blockchain'.  Should getting developers for UIA features be one of the targets?  If so, what skills are needed in terms of coding languages etc - what to put on the job description?  This could be a great example 'job' to use.

As soon as advanced UIA features would be finished and tested in the toolkit it shouldn't be a big deal to add support to GUI.
I wouldn't go for additional developers at this point, at least on frontend side things look bright: recently svk has joined as delegate, ElMato is working on mobile wallet, James is working on libraries needed for light weight client.

There is some progress. I've set up a simple proof of concept demo, please check this out..

(There are two independent parts, one is simulating the client the other one the faucet, currently they are both on the same domain, please don't be confused - in real life these would be totally separated talking to each other via api)

• [faucet] open this link http://bitsharestestdrive.com/admin/coupons/new  and create your coupon (only XTS is supported yet), copy coupon code to clipboard.
• [client] open http://bitsharestestdrive.com/ , log in with bitshares/password, go to My Accounts, click on Create New Account, select any name and paste your coupon code below, click Create New Account - now your account should be registered and you should receive coupon amount in 10 seconds.

Look great!

Speaking of delegates and referral programs... I need to find a smart way to implement a referral program through face to face meetups which I am organizing.  I am confident that any abuse of an 'in person' implementation will be extremely low.

I want to make it easy for folks to get their accounts activated, and reward them for doing so, and for referring their friends (who create accounts) to the meetup.  To the extent possible, track the numbers of people brought into the network in this manner. ie. Metrics to show the effectiveness of face to face marketing would be helpful.

I'm not a super technical delegate so I could use some help developing such a program.

What do you suppose would be the clean, accountable way of doing this?
Also assuming an n% paid delegate if that helps the implementation. 

Having what I've outlined above implemented will allow generating and printing coupons right from the BitShares client. And yes, everyone who gets coupon would have enough funds to register an account, whoever refers them also gets his/her piece of a pie, also metrics would be provided by a faucet that was used to generate coupons.

I feel like $10 is far to high. How about $0.50 or $1?

If somebody found out a way to abuse it though, they would abuse it. Especially if you plan on giving out 10 bit USD. They would find people on microworkers.com and pay people to do it for them, hire people in India etc. So just be careful. Fraud can get out of control with referral marketing with cash incentives.

This is where we need delegates - if you think that audience brought by some particular referral program is too expensive, just don't vote or vote the delegate out.
If you think there is a lot of abuse, talk to delegate, ask him or her to add more restrictions to campaign or vote the delegate out.
In both cases we need to know campaign KPIs, it can be tricky to get this data, in the UPDATE 2 I'm addressing this issue.