Remko Tronçon wrote: >> I use my IM client to receive feeds via Mimir. But maybe I'm weird. :) > > You just get so many messages a day that a few 100 more is neglectible > with respect to the rest ;-) That, or you don't really read that many > RSS feeds. > > I get about 600 messages a day, i couldn't imagine the horror of > getting them all in a linear list of jabber messages from one contact. > Moreover, I would constantly have my 'new message' icon blinking all > day, so I would start ignoring the icon, and important *real* IM > traffic wouldn't reach me in real time. > > But anyway, enough ranting. I could see blog posts (etc.) getting > inside an IM client, if they would be tied to a contact (i.e. if they > are published via PEP). The difference with the other PEP stuff coming > into clients today is that, for the blog case, you probably want to be > able to turn off auto-subscription for a certain number of contacts > (as opposed to e.g. tune information, where it doesn't really matter, > as it doesn't interrupt you). You would also want a flat, linear > history of all contacts together, filtered on certain types of events, > such that you can get something like he home pages from plaxo or > facebook. But this is all quite some work, especially if you want to > do this right.
You're right. An XMPP-enabled feed reader would be cool and this really doesn't belong in an IM client, but for now it's the only way that I can receive these things in real time. :) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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