Re: raindrop messaging integration

[Bryan Clark <clarkbw gnome org>]

On 26/10/09 10:32 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> I went and built raindrop just to see what it can do.  I haven't quite 
> gotten a good grip on it yet.  It seems though that integration with 
> Zeitgrist might have some advantages.  I don't know what a visual 
> shell and raindrop would do other than notifications?

Sorry, I had to look up with Zeitgeist was because honestly I haven't 
really seen it before.  From what I understand Zeitgeist could look to 
Raindrop for access to messages but we really are building a much higher 
level API than that; centered around People and Conversations that take 
place on the web. i.e. over email, twitter, facebook, and others.

Our API will end up looking something like this:

GET /raindrop/people/list
GET /raindrop/people/b3794d6a-147e-49e2-8ccf-78a7eb3bb9d4
GET /raindrop/conversations/list
GET /raindrop/conversations/236fbd42-dcf1-4c6e-9f95-8e4706fd2e70

Though lower level access to individual messages will exist, we're 
building for clients that aren't necessarily interested only in 
individual messages.  Likewise the Raindrop idea of a Person isn't 
exactly what most other systems expect, we have the concept of a person 
that might exist only via a web page, email address, twitter/identi.ca 
or facebook id.

So it's possible to build a typical Twitter, Email, or "Finder" client 
that uses Raindrop as the backend for the data however part of our 
mantra is that there is just too much "backend type data" out there so 
we have new APIs to deliver "the real" data.  And because the real data 
is all returned in JSON from a service accessible by multiple clients I 
am hoping that there will be some easy and interesting ways of 
integrating into the shell.

Thanks for taking a look!

Cheers,
~ Bryan