time for a unified microblogging / SNS client?
From the Zannel Press Page:
Today Zannel (zannel.com) announced that it is launching an open API (www.zannel.com/developers) that will allow developers to leverage the power and functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging™ (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups. With access to the IMM™ platform, developers can take advantage of a rich messaging system that can deliver text, picture, and video messages across SMS, MMS, and email systems and format them for web browsers or mobile devices.
Now Pownce have had their API for a while now, and of course there’s Twitter’s and Jaiku’s and even Seesmic seems to have something.
So it must nearly be time to for something akin to Pidgin; one client to rule them all.
Wouldn’t it be great to have one unified time-line of your social network? Annotated with pictures, videos and mp3s?
This is my lazy-web request of the day. Whisper about it to your OpenSource hacking friends. We need more simple but powerful tools.
All in good time I suspect. I don’t imagine there’s a large enough cross-platform install base yet for an IMM-Pidgin equivalent yet.
I need to enable the check for new version plugin in Pidgin, my software was .4 behind the current stable release.
I’m wracking my brain for something to offer as incentive for developing a useful client. Naming a character’s pretty traditional…
[...] But, it’s definitely a start; a step in the right direction towards the creation of a true unified microblogging client. [...]