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[Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, also, if we have those imagebin and other contracts, it'd be great to
get them packaged up to get tested.
On Feb 17, 2012 1:07 AM, "Cassidy James" <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I was looking at some of the OS X Mountain Lion announcement stuff and
> noticed they were really pushing the fact that Twitter was integrated into
> their OS. It got me thinking; most social networks have a pretty simple
> API... why can't we add them into elementary in the form of Contracts for
> Contractor?
>
> We can, and in my opinion, should. While we could rely on an app like
> Gwibber to handle all the social networking, why not just bake it in and
> make it even more seamless? At this point I'm not even sure that Gwibber
> could be set up to handle contracts without upstream patches.
>
> We could even have a Sharing plug in Switchboard to handle the
> authentication and switching on or off of services.
>
> Let me know what you think, if there are any drawbacks, and if you want to
> work on it. ;)
>
> Thanks,
> Cassidy James
>