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Here is a half-baked proposal for a Twitter-esque extension to Chandler

Note This is not only a proposal for a Twitter extension, but is intended to provide space in the UI for ambient information. Information people soak up, stuff that doesn't necessarily require your full attention, but instead floats around you like elevator music. Different people will define ambient in different ways. The design list is at the core of the work I do, but is probably ambient information for most list subscribers. Examples of sources of ambient information include: Twitter, Facebook status, News tickers, RSS feeds, mailing lists, etc.

• Floating palette where all the tweets come in
• It'd be nice if it weren't just tweets, but feeds of all shapes and sizes (in the fullness of time as we like to say)
• A drop-down at the top where I can choose to either:
  • View all feeds (I know feeds is the wrong word, but don't have a better one right now.)
  • View a single feed
  • Add a feed
• Tweets / feed things scroll by, not sure if we need to archive these things? We would need separate UI for that.

• If one of the ambient items is just a headline for a longer blog post / article, then clicking on it will take you to the article in a browser.

• At the bottom is an entry box to submit your own tweet.

Now here's the killer feature:

• Drag and drop individual tweets into the main Chandler window so you can stamp it as a task, add it to the calendar etc.
• I imagine that some feeds actually contain valid .ics files, so those should get parsed as events automagically, if dragged into the main window.

Things to Consider

• Do we want to have a tweet/feed palette per collection?
• Do we want to give users a way to specify where they'd like to send their tweet? Twitter v. Pounce v. Facebook v. MySpace^?, etc.
• Haven't figured out a way to integrate the 'timeline/calendar' view that Morgen demo'd. But it was a very cool way to browse one's twitter archive.
• Organization by Contact/Group/Organization

• Twitter.png:
  

-- MimiYin - 18 Oct 2007