8:48 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:24:48AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Here is some use case information for the Identi.ca feed hookup:
* I'm interested in @Fedora status messages.
RIGHT NOW: I don't know where Fedora's Identi.ca feed is. But if I
take a wild guess and use http://identi.ca/fedora fortunately that's
the right one.[1]
SHINY FUTURE: On the Insight page there's an easy to see block that
says Fedora Speaks! with easy links to the Identi.ca and Twitter
feeds. The Twitter feed is de-emphasized a bit, which encourages me
to look at Identi.ca if I don't know what it is. But fortunately
Fedora respects the fact that I'm already on Twitter so I can easily
follow them, whichever I decide to use.
WIN: Tiny/medium
EFFORT: Small, just an RSS feed and a bit of appropriate graphics
and hyperlinks in a block.
* I'm a member of the Fedora Marketing subteam that works on social
networking stuff, and I want to put a message on our Identi.ca and
Twitter feeds.
RIGHT NOW: I share the account password with lots of people. (That
works OK, but it worries me that someone might get access to my
data.) I visit our identi.ca page, log in, and set a status. The
status automatically echoes to Twitter too.
SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice for "Set
Identi.ca/Twitter status". When I select it, I'm prompted for a
140-character maximum message. When I select Forward, the system
asks me to confirm the content. Once I select Confirm, the status
is posted to Identi.ca and then echoes automatically to Twitter via
Identi.ca's built-in functionality.
WIN: Medium/huge
EFFORT: May be small, since the 100% all-FOSS brdcst.it service can
take an RSS feed of status from anywhere and post it out to other
services such as Identi.ca.
* I'm a member of the Fedora Marketing subteam that works on social
networking stuff, and I want to reply to an Identi.ca or Twitter
user.
RIGHT NOW: (see shared password above, then...) I visit either
Identi.ca or Twitter and click a link to find out if @fedora has
been mentioned. Then I reply in the WebUI to reply to the message.
SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice to see
mentions of @fedora on Identi.ca/Twitter. When I select one, I have
the option to reply to the message using the appropriate service, as
above.
Forgot this piece:
WIN: Medium
EFFORT: Probably substantial. Although there are easy ways to
broadcast out and recapture feeds, it's getting harder to pull in
site-specific stuff like mentions. (No incentive to provide this
in the case of Twitter, where this is part of the value of the
service.)
* * *
[1] Leaving aside the question of whether our feeds should show up on
the fp.o home page.
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