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February 5, 2004
Stowe Boyd on Gush
Posted by Clay Shirky
Stowe Boyd on
Gush, an IM client that re-configures the visual tracking of conversations into column view, and integrates RSS:
One of the limitations of a gated community model like that of IM products like Gush is that there is no way to post content to the wide wide world. I hope that Gush is extended to support blog features like trackback -- then I can comment on external blogs from within the Gush 'announcements' model. Still, I think the notion of community-oriented postings -- within a workgroup or social group -- is well supported by the Gush model. Perhaps a tiny tweak to support posting announcements to external blogs or external users via email gateway would solve the closed world problem. Ditto the need for comments -- if I am using announcements as a mini-blog, then folks need to be able to mini-comment, too.
One of the really interesting changes in this social software in 2003 was when people began thinking terms of patterns rather than software, and then combining them, as with wiki+blog, blog+BBS etc combos. The two tools I was most surprised not to see integrated as patterns were IM and mailing lists.
With Gush and
Buddyspace below, it looks like IM is now being really integrated with other tools.
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1. milk on February 6, 2004 4:17 PM writes...
im+mailing lists you say? why, i've using the jabber smtp transport for about 9 months now to have several lists delivered instantly to my im client, with the ability to reply. plus, i've been using jabrss for even longer.
Permalink to Comment2. MiC on July 10, 2004 4:56 AM writes...
JabRSS iv very good solution.
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