Hi David, all, On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:41 PM, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, :-) > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:21, Ivan M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> David, could you please create an identi.ca account for >> libreofficenews with the same (or as close to the same as possible) >> details? If Florian does the same, then we can turn the Twitter widget >> into an identi.ca widget (assuming identi.ca has a decent API). > > Done. ;-)
Thanks! The identi.ca API includes search which outputs JSON [1], which is what we currently use on the Twitter widget, so it should be no problem to make the widget work with that. However, from my design POV, there is the question of how to represent these... um... *insert identi.ca's equivalent of the term 'tweet' here*? Twitter is great from a semiotic perspective: the bird icon is easily recognised and the microblog post is called a tweet. This makes it easy to distinguish what you're looking at very quickly - if we move to a more obscure symbol (that is, replace the bird with something else), it makes it harder for people to figure out what they're looking at. Maybe identi.ca has its own icons and terminology that act as Twitter-equivalents (A quick Google search revealed 'dent' ... doesn't sound too appealing at first glance), so feel free to correct me here. Regards, Ivan. [1] http://status.net/wiki/TwitterCompatibleAPI?source=laconica#JSON -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
