One thing that really pissed me off yesterday morning was I wake up to my feed reader and read about Google’s AppEngine. While, yes I love their services and products, this pissed me off till no end because I had a similar idea in mind(rather part of a bigger idea), and it was implemented before I had a chance to implement it.
Here’s a nice idea(before you ask, yes I came up with it myself), twitter allows you to send messages via text and it’s accesible by any program. So what if you set up a private account, hook it up to your phone and a program that analyzes the text.
So if I twitter:
- Class test tommorow //it adds to the calendar
- Spent Rs. 10 on coffee //Tracks expenditure
- Remind about meeting in 1 hour //creates a reminder
- Note: Superbad is a pretty good movie //makes a note
Imagine the possibilities of what a few regular expressions, a quick python dbus connection to update various services will do.
Best of all it allows you to easily interact with your mobile phone and a programmer can have this service up and running in a matter of minutes.
I’m looking to get some experience in python. If you want to write this in python and let me watch, prod and help, please contact me at anirudh at anirudhsanjeev.org
This is i think reverse remember the milk. What they want you to do using RTM is send RTM the note, reminder, event or whatever and it reminds you.
what you want users to do is: simply twitter ahead, in case of “class tomorrow” and the reminder.
RTM and your idea somewhat seem similar, although if you explained more with a variety of examples, it would be better.
I didn’t know rtm had that functionality. However I seek to create a library that allows any program to get messages via twitter.
Also it’ll run locally, so you can shut down your computer, etc via twitter
any program? that’s a little ambitious. good luck
good one Anirudh!
Even, I have a nice idea of mashup, combining all social networking and other updates like twitter into one and display.
however, just came accross fuser.com a similar concept.
@sindhu, Pulls out katana and lets them gleam in the moonlight a little. Not with Python http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html katana gleams some more
haha right will check out the link. balances like pei mey on your katana