[Design] Twitter in Chandler?

[Ted Leung]

Comments in-line

On Oct 18, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Morgen demo'd a Twitter parcel at the staff meeting today (sorry to  
> steal your thunder Morgen) which set off all kinds of flammables in  
> my head.
>
> In our interview with Robert Scoble, Scoble spoke about sitting in  
> Chandler and swimming in a sea of twitters, feeds, news tickers  
> etc. Morgen took the first steps towards realizing that vision. I'm  
> picking up where he left off with a sketchy mock-up of what the  
> user experience might be like. See wiki page for screenshot.
>
> http://chandlerproject.org/Notes/TwitterHalfbaked
> Note This is not only a proposal for a Twitter extension, but is  
> intended to provide space in the UI for ambient information, as in  
> information people soak up, stuff that doesn't necessarily require  
> your full attention, but instead floats around you like elevator  
> music. Different people will define *ambient* in different ways.  
> The design list is at the core of of the work I do, but is probably  
> ambient information for most list subscribers. Examples of sources  
> of *ambient* information include: Twitter, Facebook status, News  
> tickers, RSS feeds, mailing lists, etc.
>
> + Floating palette where all the twits come in
>
> + It'd be nice if it weren't just twits, but feeds of all shapes  
> and sizes (in the fullness of time as we like to say)
>
> + A drop-down at the top where I can choose to either:
> - View all feeds (I know feeds is the wrong word, but don't have a  
> better one right now.)
> - View a single feed
> - Add a feed
>
> + Twits / feed things scroll by, not sure if we need to archive  
> these things? We would need separate UI for that.

Personally I would like archiving.

>
> + If one of the ambient items is just a headline for a longer blog  
> post / article, then clicking on it will take you to the article in  
> a browser.
>
> + At the bottom is an entry box to submit your own twit.
>
> Now here's the killer feature:
> + Drag and drop individual twits into the main Chandler window so  
> you can stamp it as a task, add it to the calendar etc.

Yup

> + I imagine that some feeds actually contain valid .ics files, so  
> those should get parsed as events automagically, if dragged into  
> the main window.

Actually the palette UI could tell you that there was an event and  
give you perhaps a preview.  NetNewsWire does this for RSS entries  
which have hCal or hCard microformat data attached to them.

> Things to Consider
>
> + Do we want to have a twit/feed palette per collection?
> + Do we want to give users a way to specify where they'd like to  
> send their twit? Twitter v. Pounce v. Facebook v. MySpace?, etc.

Consider the following: <http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/download/ 
moodswing/>...

> + Haven't figured out a way to integrate the 'timeline/calendar'  
> view that Morgen demo'd. But it was a very cool way to browse one's  
> twitter archive.

I'd point out that organzation by person/contact is also an  
adoption.  We have almost working addressbook code - I think we ought  
to give that some thought in this space as well.

Ted
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