[Proposal] Setting up to add items to Chandler Hub remotely Re: [Chandler-dev] Why is sometimes hard to dump a thought into Chandler?

[Brian Kirsch]

Hello,
I have attached a screen shot of how Yahoo handles SMS.

They use a confirmation sent to the Phone to complete registration.

Yahoo is fancy enough to ask for the specific carrier and
handheld device type.


-Brian

On Feb 19, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Given Jeffrey's preliminary feedback, I've done another pass at the  
> proposal for the 'Notifications' widget. http://chandlerproject.org/ 
> Notes/WebWidgetsMockups#SettingupNotifications
>
> Things I've changed:
> + Changed workflow so that we just give users a link to where they  
> can install homepage, iphone and desktop widgets
> + Added ability to receive notifications for all collections,  
> instead of needing to set each one individually
>
> I am waiting for comments from today's meeting to do another pass  
> for the Item Sharing and Quick Entry widgets.
>
> Mimi
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> On Feb 15, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>
>> Hi Mimi,
>>
>>> Workflow
>>> 1. Select widget from gallery (see mockup - http:// 
>>> chandlerproject.org/Notes/WebWidgetsMockups)
>>> 2. Login
>>
>> I'm a little confused, you mean login to the hub, right?
>>
>>> 3. Set options:
>>> =====
>>> Add notes to your Chandler Hub account from:
>>> [  ] iGoogle homepage
>>> -------------------------------
>>> [x] Yahoo homepage
>>>      User name: [                           ]
>>>        Password: [                           ] Add | Remove
>>
>> Are you saying you'd like Chandler Hub users to enter their Google  
>> or Yahoo passwords and have our code go and add a widget to their  
>> homepage for them?
>>
>> I think this would be pretty hard to do, since Google and Yahoo  
>> don't really want people to do this, so they don't provide APIs,  
>> anything we did like this would rely on screenscraping and  
>> wouldn't be very reliable.  It's also generally bad form for one  
>> service to ask for another service's password.  I realize Facebook  
>> does it, but I don't think it's a good idea for us.
>>
>> We can, however, provide a link to our widget on these services.   
>> Users might have to manually re-enter their Hub username/password  
>> once they get there, so I realize it's more work, but I think  
>> that's probably the best we can do.  Does that seem reasonable?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jeffrey
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