[OpenID] What if we added a Micro-Blogging badge on the OpenID.net Home Page? (Was: Logitech released One-seg TV tuner with OpenID enabled chat community)

[Martin Atkins]

This seems like it could be a good application for a product like 
BuddyPress or Movable Type Motion.

Snorri wrote:
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> There are many precious nuggets of information relating to, or 
> concerning OpenID that never appear on OpenID.net. This type of 
> information eventually comes to the ML, or on foreign blogs…
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> Today, the Wordpress (WP) on our site is limited to large articles which 
> often remain on the home page for several weeks, because only a few have 
> access to WP and have the time to post.
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> I think that adding a “Badge” to post Micro-Blogs would be powerful and 
> that it would add vitality to the page. We could start this as soon as 
> January 2009 by adding a micro-blogging OpenID News/Live directly on the 
> home page (with the date, the country of origin / the author, and the 
> name of the company), but this time we would grant access to a much 
> larger number of people in the Community. The format would be rather 
> similar to Twitter.
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> It is up to us to find the best possible tool for this (of course this 
> should not be an RSS Feed aggregator; the information has to be brief, 
> concise and may also refer to an outside link)
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> As an example, Nat would have been able to publish the News he wanted to 
> share with us in just a few seconds:  it would have appeared directly on 
> the OpenID Home Page:
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> “December 18 – Japan - Oshaberi TV - Logitech as released a USB One-seg 
> TV tuner that….”
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> We would be just like CNN  ;)
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> Just imagine how this would energize readers, as practically every day 
> something is happening in the world that concerns OpenID…
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> What do you think of the idea?
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> Should I become a member of the team, I will come back in greater detail 
> to this project, which I would like to present to the Board early next 
> year :)
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> -Snorri
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> Logitech as released a USB One-seg TV tuner that comes with a real-time 
> chat community "Oshaberi TV".
> Oshaberi TV is a chat community which allows the TV watchers to chat 
> about the program in real time.
> This community is OpenID enabled. (Press release mentions of Yahoo! and 
> mixi OpenID.
> I am not sure if it is limited to those.)
> 
> -- 
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
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