[ubuntu-za] Looking for a facebook / twitter desktop-like APP for general use

[Wesley Werner]

On 2011/03/01 15:59, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Adrianna Pinska
> <adrianna.pinska at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> How about a custom StatusNet server? I believe that a multiplatform
>> StatusNet client has been released already, but some OSS clients that
>> support identi.ca probably also support arbitrary servers.  And people
>> will be able to use a browser or a feed reader to access the
>> information too.
>>
>> --
>> Adrianna Pińska
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> What do you mean with StatusNet?
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Adrianna has a great point.

http://status.net/ is an Open source microblogging application, it 
publishes RSS feeds of your posts, your end users can use feed readers 
to catch up on the latest posts.  Thunderbird has feed capability.

Any such platform would work, really, it's the feed publishing part that 
you are after. XML based, they pass through firewalls.

Coding support for RSS / Atom feeds is easy enough, if you want to make 
a custom viewer tailored for your needs.

Take the Python RSS libraries for instance, you can read, and create, 
feeds with these: http://wiki.python.org/moin/RssLibraries