[JDEV] Thesis work: jabber news watcher

[Mike Mintz]

I just completed a new RSS transport the day before yesterday in
Python. If anyone's interested, I could post it up somewhere.

 - Mike Mintz (mikem at jabbber.org)


On 26 Mar 2002 10:13:14 -0600 Thomas Muldowney <temas at box5.net> wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > MSN Foto's is de eenvoudigste manier om je foto's te delen en af te
> drukken: 
> > http://photos.msn.nl/Support/WorldWide.aspx
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > jdev mailing list
> > jdev at jabber.org
> > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
> 
>