RSS feeds in WLM ?

Hi,

I would like to suggest the addition of a new functionnality in Windows Live
Messenger: support of RSS/Atom feeds in the Contact Cards.

For the moment, the only two information that can be shown in the Contact
Cards are contact's information (manually entered when editing a contact) and
the Windows Live Spaces of this contact, if he has configured one. I believe
it could be interesting to extend the possibilities of the Contact Card by
modifying this last option.

I personnally don't have a WLS. I have my own self-hosted weblog. I'm sure
I'm not the only one WLM user whose blog is hosted somewhere else than WLS.
WLM users may have blog hosted by other platforms (Blogger, Typepad,
WordPress, or self-hosted solutions like WordPress, Movable Type, DotClear,
etc.). These users may want to share their lastest blog entries with their
WLM friends.

Moreover : a user may not have an own weblog, but could wish to share some
other type of information. It could by its Flickr photos, its lastest
listened songs list on Last.fm, the lastest news posted in his favourite news
site, etc. Possibilities are endless with Atom/RSS feeds!

I think it could be lot of interest in allowing WLM users to share
information from either their WLS or another self-chosen feed in its Contact
Card. This could be achieved by adding a new option in WLM configuration,
something like this:

"In my Contact Card, I would like to share:
[ ] My Space
[x] My own blog (RSS) : [http://www.myblog.com/feed.rss]"

What to you think of the suggestion ?

Greetings,

It's been suggested before. I personally would prefer Spaces to support what you want and
then it would all just work like that (mainly because that's more doable and more likely).

Still it certainly would be cool to have this feature.

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"Alexandre P." <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest the addition of a new functionnality in Windows Live
> Messenger: support of RSS/Atom feeds in the Contact Cards.
>
> For the moment, the only two information that can be shown in the Contact
> Cards are contact's information (manually entered when editing a contact) and
> the Windows Live Spaces of this contact, if he has configured one. I believe
> it could be interesting to extend the possibilities of the Contact Card by
> modifying this last option.
>
> I personnally don't have a WLS. I have my own self-hosted weblog. I'm sure
> I'm not the only one WLM user whose blog is hosted somewhere else than WLS.
> WLM users may have blog hosted by other platforms (Blogger, Typepad,
> WordPress, or self-hosted solutions like WordPress, Movable Type, DotClear,
> etc.). These users may want to share their lastest blog entries with their
> WLM friends.
>
> Moreover : a user may not have an own weblog, but could wish to share some
> other type of information. It could by its Flickr photos, its lastest
> listened songs list on Last.fm, the lastest news posted in his favourite news
> site, etc. Possibilities are endless with Atom/RSS feeds!
>
> I think it could be lot of interest in allowing WLM users to share
> information from either their WLS or another self-chosen feed in its Contact
> Card. This could be achieved by adding a new option in WLM configuration,
> something like this:
>
> "In my Contact Card, I would like to share:
> [ ] My Space
> [x] My own blog (RSS) : [http://www.myblog.com/feed.rss]"
>
> What to you think of the suggestion ?