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z2003-07-07- Phil Wolff Univ Inbox Email Client
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by BillSeitz
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Aug 12, 2008 6:03 pm |
Phil Wolff suggests that an EMail client makes the right starting point for a Universal Inbox. It sure smells that way, which makes the Ms Outlook LockIn that much more depressing. I really wish OSAF and MozIlla could find a way to merge (or at least deeply integrate) immediately!
He also thinks the Echo Standards should encompass all flavors of Micro Content: tasks, Group Calendaring, etc. - I think that would weigh it down too much - better to work with existing narrow standards like FOAF, VCal/ICal, VCard, etc. And maybe some way to handle extensions as "attachments". I guess part of the question here is how to syndicate AppLog data into a Universal Inbox: is it [OK] if you throw away the structure in that feed? The posting is just a notification, and if you need structure you follow the [URL] to the host WebApp? See AppWiki, Object Browser.
Let Echo support extensions without predefining them. --Phil Wolff 2003/07/09 02:13 [GMT]
I want lots of narrow standards. But [NEcho] is about transport, about conveyance, about wiring. Why not provide for arbitrary xml packages, to be optionally used or ignored? That way those who want to extend functionality have a straightforward entrypoint for syndication, aggregation, and blog posting of other objects. We don't need to define a spec for baseball scores as part of [NEcho], just a way for those who do to syndicate them.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog