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

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Wesley Werner <wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2011/03/01 15:59, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Adrianna Pinska
>> <adrianna.pinska at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> --
>>> Adrianna Pińska
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>> What do you mean with StatusNet?
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> Adrianna has a great point.
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> 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.
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> Coding support for RSS / Atom feeds is easy enough, if you want to make a
> custom viewer tailored for your needs.
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> Take the Python RSS libraries for instance, you can read, and create, feeds
> with these: http://wiki.python.org/moin/RssLibraries
>

aah, ok. I don't want RSS. RSS is too limited. I need something which
gives me much more control. Like I said, something similar to the
Facebook / Twitter / gmail notify desktop apps which basically give
you a lot more.

Something like this: http://www.d6technology.com/

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Rudi Ahlers
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