iWatch Is Coming...
Category Software Development
There soon will be a new application for you to play with on OpenNTF. It will in all likelihood be called iWatch, and it's a Notes client interface to the Google News Alert service.
This application will allow you to subscribe to Google News Alerts from within a Notes client. The emails received will be sent back to the database and processed automagically with Domino Java agents. Then once a day, the app will send out a customized newsletter to you listing all the hits received on your subscribed search terms. Your newsletter subscription allows you to pick and choose which news items you want to see, so you can use it in a department and not be forced into getting notified on everything out there. Pretty basic stuff, but really powerful when you consider how important it is to receive links to news stories of importance to you from over 4000 news sources... daily... even immediately. Heck, I've surprised Ed Brill on some of the stuff I've pulled out that he didn't know had become public knowledge...
I'll let you all know when it is available. I have a bit more cleanup to do, but it's nearly ready. We can all thank Marquam Group for allowing me to release it to open source. I built it for them while I had some bench time, and they graciously consented to share it with us all.
Even better... I already have an add-on market in place! Carl Tyler of Instant-Tech got a copy of it earlier this week to test it out for me. Not only is it working well nearly out of the box, but he's front-ended a Sametime bot onto the application already. Very cool stuff. You can see a demo of the bot at http://www.instant-tech.com/instant.nsf/root/livebots.htm . Thanks for the testing, Carl, and thanks for pushing the limits already!
There soon will be a new application for you to play with on OpenNTF. It will in all likelihood be called iWatch, and it's a Notes client interface to the Google News Alert service.
This application will allow you to subscribe to Google News Alerts from within a Notes client. The emails received will be sent back to the database and processed automagically with Domino Java agents. Then once a day, the app will send out a customized newsletter to you listing all the hits received on your subscribed search terms. Your newsletter subscription allows you to pick and choose which news items you want to see, so you can use it in a department and not be forced into getting notified on everything out there. Pretty basic stuff, but really powerful when you consider how important it is to receive links to news stories of importance to you from over 4000 news sources... daily... even immediately. Heck, I've surprised Ed Brill on some of the stuff I've pulled out that he didn't know had become public knowledge...
I'll let you all know when it is available. I have a bit more cleanup to do, but it's nearly ready. We can all thank Marquam Group for allowing me to release it to open source. I built it for them while I had some bench time, and they graciously consented to share it with us all.
Even better... I already have an add-on market in place! Carl Tyler of Instant-Tech got a copy of it earlier this week to test it out for me. Not only is it working well nearly out of the box, but he's front-ended a Sametime bot onto the application already. Very cool stuff. You can see a demo of the bot at http://www.instant-tech.com/instant.nsf/root/livebots.htm . Thanks for the testing, Carl, and thanks for pushing the limits already!
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Posted by Carl Tyler At 19:17:32 On 04/03/2004 | - Website - |