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Re: status?

 

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/11/2013 10:06 AM, Thomas Voß wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 09/11/2013 06:31 AM, John Lenton wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>> Let's assume the best case and we have native apps for facebook,
>>>>> twitter, your-favorite-social network apps. How would friends fit in
>>>>> with this configuration/scenario?
>>>>
>>>> that's one I'd love to know. My take is that Friends has value in and
>>>> of itself, and a lot of people (even on other phones, or the web)
>>>> would love to have it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> First off, let's not forget we don't have native apps for facebook, twitter, etc
>>> yet. :)
>>>
>>> Secondly, anecdotally, some time ago I switched phones and used stock Android
>>> for a while on the new phone (I'm now dogfooding of course ;). The OEM for the
>>> previous phone had something like Friends but with a not so great interface that
>>> aggregated notifications for various different social accounts, SMS and email
>>> (it was sorta trying to do what indicator-messages does). Like Friends, it would
>>> allow you to setup the various accounts independent of the official apps which
>>> allowed you to read the content and respond to it in a limited way, but unlike
>>> Friends there seemed to be different applications for each account, ie, the
>>> OEM's email client, the OEM's facebook client, etc. As clunky as it was, I still
>>> found it quite useful and missed it on the stock Android experience (maybe there
>>> was something that did it, I don't know). In this context, aggregating social
>>> (and messaging) is quite helpful and I think there is still room for something
>>> like Friends. If Friends continues in this vein, it might be cool if Friends
>>> could also launch the official apps using the URL to the message with the
>>> url-dispatcher.
>>>
>>> 2 cents...
>>>
>>
>> Agreed, having social media deeply integrated with the system is a
>> really great feature.
>> One way of doing it could be via a plugin based system where social
>> networks are modelled by loadable modules such that we could integrate
>> the push-notification service with friends easily.
>>
>> However, I think that's more a version 2 topic as it has got both
>> architectural and security implications (Jamie, please correct me if
>> I'm wrong).
>>
>
> I'm not sure-- definitely worth a discussion when we are planning v2. :)
>

@Robert: Do we have a blueprint tracking the friends development?

Thanks,

  Thomas
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> Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/
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