[JDEV] Thesis work: jabber news watcher

[Thomas Muldowney]

In JabberStudio's cvs you could take a look at some old RSS transports
to maybe get some ideas of where to go with it.  Currently I don't know
of any RSS or news watchers that are in a good development cycle.

--temas


On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 17:18, -= COBNET =- wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> hoping to hear from you soon
> greetings
> Mattias Campe
> 
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