[sorry that I've reordered this post, it just make more sense to me reading up to down than down to up. I've learned to read that way you know ;-). Reading up to down is especially usefull for people who just subscribed to JDEV (like me ;-) ) and who want to pick up a discussion somewhere in the middle]
> > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 17:18, -= COBNET =- wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > I'm in my last but one year at the University of Ghent in Belgium > > > (http://www.rug.ac.be) where I'm attending my Diploma of the Second > > > Cycle (licentiaat) in Computer Science. For my last year, I have to > > work > > > on my thesis. We can choose from subject that our university presents > > to > > > us or we can choose a subject of our own (but we have to do this >before > > > next week :( ). > > > > > > > > > Because I'm very attracted to Jabber and XML I would like to do > > > something with it. I personally thought of a news report system >through > > > Jabber. For example, there are a lot of newsgroups now, only available > > > through a browser. Sometimes you would like to follow a discussion >very > > > close, so it would be very helpfull if you could be notified in real > > > time when a new message arrives at that discussion. Because of the >open > > > source thing Jabber has, this could be "easy" implemented (by "easy" I > > > mean that it would me much harder to do with systems like ICQ, > > MSN,...). > > > So I would like to do the inverse thing of jogger > > > (http://jogger.jabber.org): instead of "me" bringing messages to the > > web > > > I would like to have the web bring messages to me. So it would have >the > > > functionality of http://www.jabberbuddy.com/watcher.html but I would > > > like to have it available to more people and continuing the > > > decentralised spirit of jabber. > > > > > > > > > Because I wouldn't like to reinvent the wheel I contacted you first, > > > because maybe this already exists or maybe you have a much better >idea. > > > My goal is to bring Jabber much much closer to the "ordinary" home >user > > > or "ordinary" web developer, I want them to see that jabber has much > > > more in it than e.g. ICQ or MSN. I tried to convince some friends of >me > > > to go to using Jabber, but they just didn't saw nor I could convince > > > them (or not all of them) why it was important to have another > > > IM-system taking up their RAM. > > > > > > > > > > > > hoping to hear from you soon > > > greetings > > > Mattias Campe >On 26 Mar 2002 10:13:14 -0600 Thomas Muldowney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In JabberStudio's cvs you could take a look at some old RSS transports > > to maybe get some ideas of where to go with it. Currently I don't know > > of any RSS or news watchers that are in a good development cycle. > > > > --temas >From: Mike Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re[2]: [JDEV] Thesis work: jabber news watcher >Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:36:49 -0900 (Alaskan Standard Time) > >I just completed a new RSS transport the day before yesterday in >Python. If anyone's interested, I could post it up somewhere. > > - Mike Mintz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I already read about this RSS transport and I already tried to find some more info about it, but I just can't figure out what it is exactly. I mean, would it make my idea unnecessary or would it be more like that that RSS transport would be able to help me with my idea? Mattias Campe _________________________________________________________________ Chat on line met vrienden en probeer MSN Messenger uit: http://messenger.msn.nl _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
