Microblogging to Chandler Hub

[Graham Perrin]

Running parallel to the thread re: a notional new quick entry application,
<http://n2.nabble.com/-tp3100144p3822970.html>

Another possibly crazy idea:

* might any microblogging client be extended to post (quick entry) to Chandler Hub?

With <http://status.net/wiki/Apps> (highlights: <http://tinyurl.com/yjvy6mo>)
as a starting point, I tried just a few applications.

Of those few, I find twhirl most pleasant. More importantly, I suspect that co-workers will find twhirl easy enough to use (for 'fun' of use, the benchmark that I have been given is the AIR-based Yammer application).

There's also open source Spaz but the UI is probably too geeky for my co-workers.

Other apps that I have kept in my Dock include qTwitter and Mac OS X-only Afficheur.

Is any of this worth pursuing? Or should efforts be focused on a quick entry application/widget that is for Chandler Hub alone?

All thoughts gratefully received
Graham

[Hyakugei]

If the 'hub were to support a "standard" RESTish API, say based on
Atom, then acess to many other tools becomes possible.

I have _no idea_ how the Chandler data model might map onto the Atom
API. Not that it couldn't, i've just never looked into how that might
work.

I know there was some talk about work being done to the 'hub to
support a more friendly web/RESTish API. I don't know what the current
state of that effort is.

In face, without wanting to hijack this thread, i've not heard from
any of the devs in quite some time... Are we dead in the water?

j

2009/10/14 Graham Perrin <[hidden email]>:

>
> Running parallel to the thread re: a notional new quick entry application,
> <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp3100144p3822970.html>
>
> Another possibly crazy idea:
>
> * might any microblogging client be extended to post (quick entry) to
> Chandler Hub?
>
> With <http://status.net/wiki/Apps> (highlights:
> <http://tinyurl.com/yjvy6mo>)
> as a starting point, I tried just a few applications.
>
> Of those few, I find  http://twhirl.org/ twhirl  most pleasant. More
> importantly, I suspect that co-workers will find twhirl easy enough to use
> (for 'fun' of use, the benchmark that I have been given is the AIR-based
> Yammer application).
>
> There's also open source  http://getspaz.com/ Spaz  but the UI is probably
> too geeky for my co-workers.
>
> Other apps that I have kept in my Dock include qTwitter and Mac OS X-only
> Afficheur.
>
> Is any of this worth pursuing? Or should efforts be focused on a quick entry
> application/widget that is for Chandler Hub alone?
>
> All thoughts gratefully received
> Graham
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[Delphine Ménard]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 19:04, Graham Perrin <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Running parallel to the thread re: a notional new quick entry application,
> <http://n2.nabble.com/-tp3100144p3822970.html>
>
> Another possibly crazy idea:
>
> * might any microblogging client be extended to post (quick entry) to
> Chandler Hub?
>
> With <http://status.net/wiki/Apps> (highlights:
> <http://tinyurl.com/yjvy6mo>)
> as a starting point, I tried just a few applications.
>
> Of those few, I find  http://twhirl.org/ twhirl  most pleasant. More
> importantly, I suspect that co-workers will find twhirl easy enough to use
> (for 'fun' of use, the benchmark that I have been given is the AIR-based
> Yammer application).

I don't know anything about the technical side of things, but Twhirl,
as good as it is, is unfortunately probably going to be "discontinued"
and replaced by Seesmic desktop. So that's probably not a good horse
to bet on.

> There's also open source  http://getspaz.com/ Spaz  but the UI is probably
> too geeky for my co-workers.
>
> Other apps that I have kept in my Dock include qTwitter and Mac OS X-only
> Afficheur.
>
> Is any of this worth pursuing? Or should efforts be focused on a quick entry
> application/widget that is for Chandler Hub alone?

I think evan on identica kind of answered the concerns I would have
with using a microblogging client to add tasks and notes to Chandler,
which is the privacy of the data. I don't mind entering some stuff
"publicly", but not all. So how do you mange that? (and is taking care
of two accounts an easy thing to do?)

I could imagine some kind of jabber/XMPP (?) interface thing that does
that though. Something like your hub account would be assigned a
jabber id and you'd message them with notes and tasks. Again, no idea
whether that is at all possible.

Delphine


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[Graham Perrin]

Delphine Ménard wrote:

I don't know anything about the technical side of things, but Twhirl, as good as it is, is unfortunately probably going to be "discontinued" and replaced by Seesmic desktop. So that's probably not a good horse to bet on.

I did wonder about discontinuation. There have been plenty of changes to Twhirl since the April 2008 acquisition by Seesmic, Inc..

<http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/seesmic.com> notes that Seesmic Desktop does not support StatusNet servers such as Identi.ca so I can't use that product. <http://feedback.seesmic.com/pages/19374/suggestions/157446> shows that support is planned.

Bets/guesses/plans aside, back to Chandler …

I could imagine some kind of jabber/XMPP (?) interface thing that does that though. Something like your hub account would be assigned a jabber id and you'd message them with notes and tasks. Again, no idea whether that is at all possible.

Since realising that Adium beta support for StatusNet and Twitter is so good, my thoughts are shifting in the direction of Adium and Pidgin.

Hyakugei wrote:

dead in the water?

Without looking at commits/stats etc., I suspect that some recent effort has focused on interop between Chandler Desktop 1.x and Mac OS X 10.6, Chandler Hub and iCal 4.x, Chandler Hub and iPhone OS 3.x.

If the 'hub were to support a "standard" RESTish API, say based on Atom, then acess to many other tools becomes possible.

I have _no idea_ how the Chandler data model might map onto the Atom API. Not that it couldn't, i've just never looked into how that might work.

I know there was some talk about work being done to the 'hub to support a more friendly web/RESTish API. I don't know what the current state of that effort is.

1. Re <http://tinyurl.com/googlewave-chandler-007> I suspect that a relatively simple widget to post (alone) to the Hub will most easily realisable.

2. The idea of adding comparable support to Adium is appealing. Something like,
* each collection on the Hub represented in the contact list of Adium
* write to that contact = simply post to that collection
* (no real wish to see 'within' a collection)
-- but I don't know where to start, I don't know whether a development for Adium could be ported for the benefit of Pidgin (or vice versa), etc..

3. Re: RESTish, let's have a dig around, see what we can find.

Best,
Graham

[Graham Perrin]

Sorry, I messed up the quote levels in my previous message.
<http://n2.nabble.com/-tp3824170p3844390.html> for the corrected version.