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What is your Status?
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Everything has status but not everything has presence. I have been thinking allot about status lately and the model for a new application is rapidly emerging.&
I have status.
Projects have status.
Elevators have status.
Servers have status.
Stocks have status.
Trains have status.
Applications have status.
Stores have status.
What is NFLX doing right now?
What is PowerSDK doing right now?
What is Ted doing right now?
Status is not an online or offline thing, it is a concept grounded in reality because everyone and everything is doing something. When someone logs off AIM, they don't have presence, but they continue to have status.
How would you publish status?
How would you update status?
How would you manage subscribers? Could you?
Could your status have different views? Friend, Co-worker, Component
Could a view be private?
How big would a status XML packet be?
What would the properties say?
Could you have icons with your status?
I am building an application called Status. It will allow you to publish status on all sorts of things easily. It will allow you to share status with others and provide you with other people's/thing's status in a simple view.
Example:
<status date="1095966585453"
name="Theodore E. Patrick"
blog="http://www.powersdk.com/ted/">
<icon value="Keyboard" />
<message>Working on "Status" the application.</message>
<wisdom>"Easy things are easy, and hard things are possible." - Larry Wall on Perl</wisdom>
</status>
Thoughts? Comments? Feedback?
Cheers,
Ted ;)
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Not in anyway to minimize what you are doing, but your current example is pretty-much a replication of the 'finger' tool/protocol from *nix.
I would be worried that, by talking about Status, one gets bogged down into time management like thinking. ie. what/how do you move/keep track of project status? What if you want to 'share' status of an object between two people (like a project)?
The ability to subscribe to an object which has published status is pretty interesting - you might want to look at the mod-pubsub guys stuff (http://www.mod-pubsub.org/blog/index.php).
Anyway, looking forward to more thoughts about this app/idea!
jos 'hyakugei' yule
Jos,
I am putting together a listserv for the project and I should be posting some additional information shortly. Including information on how to get involved in design and development. More to come.
Cheers,
Ted ;)