Hello, I would like to hear your opinion about my idea: a new microformat for personal status messages. As far as I can see this proposal has not been discussed yet. If you still worked on this I am sorry.
Problem: -------- With social platforms like facebook.com or twitter.com you are able to show everybody or just your buddies what you are currently doing. Unfortunately there is no option to set your status on all your favorite services at once. You have to do it manually on every single service scattered over the web. In addition there is widespread use instant-messaging services like Jabber, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ, Y!, MSN and many more. You can set your online status in every protocol, too. Instead showing whether they are online or idle, many users started to put their current activities as online status, e. g. »doing the laundry« or »watching the Simpson's movie«. Furthermore, some users started to embed their status, in parts from twitter/facebook status, in other parts form their IM service, on their websites. This is done via badges, jscript or iframes at this moment. Solution: --------- One may solve this problem with a microformat for your status, e. g. hStatus. The expected benefit of a hStatus microformat is, that every instant-messaging client or social service, even your own blog or website, can fetch your status (mood, activity ...) from one other IM client or website that supports hStatus. You can declare any service as master source. The structure for this microformat is pretty lean, it just requires zwo fields: status (a text string that indicates what ever you want it to indicate) and timestamp. The timestamp may be parsed as relative time (e. g. 18 minutes ago) by the client. The formatting of the timestamp is definitely a point to discuss. I would like to discuss, if a third field is appropriate: in some cases it may be usefully to integrate a field to differ the type of the status: activity, mood, message. From my humble point of view this is not necessary for the use cases mentioned above. Code: ----- This may be the Code for hStatus, as I would describe it: <div id="hStatus" class="status"> <span class="nickname">Nickname</span> <div class="status">Text of status or activity here</div> <div class="timestamp">2007-08-10 08:36:00 +2</div> </div> I am looking forward for your responses. I also will also post this suggestion in German on my weblog http://domanske.de later. Best, Stefan -- Rettmers Höhe 38 • 21335 Lüneburg • Germany M: +491778343445 • F: +49721151503220 http://www.domanske.de • [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
