[JDEV] Thesis work: jabber news watcher

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Hi,


I'm in my last but one year at the University of Ghent in Belgium
(http://www.rug.ac.be) where I'm attending my Diploma of the Second
Cycle (licentiaat) in Computer Science. For my last year, I have to work
on my thesis. We can choose from subject that our university presents to
us or we can choose a subject of our own (but we have to do this before
next week :( ).


Because I'm very attracted to Jabber and XML I would like to do
something with it. I personally thought of a news report system through
Jabber. For example, there are a lot of newsgroups now, only available
through a browser. Sometimes you would like to follow a discussion very
close, so it would be very helpfull if you could be notified in real
time when a new message arrives at that discussion. Because of the open
source thing Jabber has, this could be "easy" implemented (by "easy" I
mean that it would me much harder to do with systems like ICQ, MSN,...).
So I would like to do the inverse thing of jogger
(http://jogger.jabber.org): instead of "me" bringing messages to the web
I would like to have the web bring messages to me. So it would have the
functionality of http://www.jabberbuddy.com/watcher.html but I would
like to have it available to more people and continuing the
decentralised spirit of jabber. E.g.with sourceforge.net you could follow 
new releases of programs (e.g. Exodus) by first subscribing to the newsbot 
of sourceforge (because it should be easy to use: I wouldn't want them to a 
Jabber server first, just a JID with any server should do the job) and then 
with a special command, you can follow the releases.


Because I wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel I contacted you first,
because maybe this already exists or maybe you have a much better idea.
My goal is to bring Jabber much much closer to the "ordinary" home user
or "ordinary" web developer, I want them to see that jabber has much
more in it than e.g. ICQ or MSN. I tried to convince some friends of me
to go to using Jabber, but they just didn't saw nor I could convince
them (or not all of them) why it was important to have another
IM-system taking up their RAM.

Because I've got to proof to my professor that I can program and develop 
ideas as implementations, I should do it by my own, I hope you understand 
this and I really want to do sth with Jabber. Of course it would be really 
appreciated if you could help me with a problem I just can't get around with 
or you also could try it and give comment (after all, you guys are more used 
to jabber) on the system.



hoping to hear from you soon
greetings
Mattias Campe

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