[JDEV] Jabber Killer App: WCS?

[Ralph Meijer]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:57:34PM +0100, David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:
> In my opinion Jabber is the idea mechanism for intelligent agents to use 
> to communicate with their owners.  It would be particularly nice to have 
> an RSS agent which could send me all of the items from a particular site 
> (or collection of sites) and then build up a profile of which articles I 
> read.  After a while it could, in addition to a daily summary of all of 
> the sites I've subscribed to, send me instant allerts when something it 
> thinks I would be interrested in occurs.  Most of the functionality it 
> requires is already in the protocol, it just needs a client that can 
> inform a service when a particular link in a headline message has been 
> visited, or possibly the service could just mark links that have been 
> replied to (same message id in headline and reply) as interresting to 
> the particular user.  Anyway, I'm thinking out loud here.  The web is 
> getting to the point where it is not easy to filter all of the 
> information that a user may wish to read sensibly using a conventional 
> browser interface, and a Jabber client could be a far better interface 
> for the future.

Interesting. Although there is no facility for recommendation, please
check http://mimir.ik.nu/. It is a Jabber powered news service, with a
backend that uses publish/subscribe. I've recently created an about page
with details on the architecture.

Ideas are welcome.

-- 
Groetjes,

Ralphm