Hi Mario. I'm working at www.lanacion.com.ar and I'm very interested in this development.
In which language did you do it? Or, what
libraries did you use to build it?
I was surfing through the internet but I couldn't
find any project that help me.
Could you give me some extra information? thanks for you
time.
Regards
Juan
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Mario Menti
Enviado el: Jueves, 09 de Febrero de 2006 08:40 a.m.
Para: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Asunto: [backstage] Hourly news flashes via IM
Someone suggested off-line it would be nice to have an IM bot that pushes news to them automatically, without you having to request it. So I sat down last night and implemented something like this (pretty raw in its current state):
- you contact the bot to register you interest
- the bot sends out the latest 5 headlines from the BBC news page every hour (on the hour) to all those registered
- and of course, you can contact the bot again to remove yourself from the list
If anyone wants to try it out and let me know what they think, here's the details:
Google Talk and Jabber users, contact "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
MSN users contact " [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
AIM users contact "bbcnewsflash"
As I said, this is still very experimental, so don't be too surprised if it doesn't always work... but I'd be interested in people's feelings in general, whether something like this is useful (or just annoying..).
One obivous next step would be to be able to select the type of news you want (currently it's just the 5 items most recently updated in UK version of the news feed) by registering keywords, or being able to pick news by category.
Cheers,
Mario.
