Comments on: ASK STEVE #5 – Posting to all your Social accounts in one click http://blog.stevepoland.com/ask-steve-5-posting-to-all-your-social-accounts-in-one-click/ web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:32:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: KwangErn Liew http://blog.stevepoland.com/ask-steve-5-posting-to-all-your-social-accounts-in-one-click/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 KwangErn Liew Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:01:43 +0000 http://stevepoland.com/?p=262#comment-1052 A more realistic option is exactly what James touched on. A desktop client that sits nicely as a widget or as a tray icon that embraces all the core functions of these services. You want to send messages out? Do so. You want to view all your friends' messages? Consider it done. Need a history log for you to go back later? You sure got it. You want a central secure login system? Sure thing, the standalone application sits on your PC, the security depends on your ownership and management of your PC. Clean and simple. Even better, keep it open source. Not everything has to be via browser. Something that many internet companies have mistaken. A more realistic option is exactly what James touched on. A desktop client that sits nicely as a widget or as a tray icon that embraces all the core functions of these services. You want to send messages out? Do so. You want to view all your friends’ messages? Consider it done. Need a history log for you to go back later? You sure got it. You want a central secure login system? Sure thing, the standalone application sits on your PC, the security depends on your ownership and management of your PC.

Clean and simple.

Even better, keep it open source.

Not everything has to be via browser. Something that many internet companies have mistaken.

]]> By: James D Kirk http://blog.stevepoland.com/ask-steve-5-posting-to-all-your-social-accounts-in-one-click/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 James D Kirk Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:38:26 +0000 http://stevepoland.com/?p=262#comment-1051 What about creating a desktop widget (I apologize that I am having a brain freeze right now about some of their names) that would live outside of the browser. This way, when Steve is visiting all his buddy buddies at his various "worlds" and decides to reply to a message or broadcast to that particular community, instead of using that sites "compose" function he would use wheezio's desktop widget? I'm sure some top notch encryption could be put in place (and explained to pain in the >>> users like Steve ;) ) stating that all your login info would be encrypted from the time you enter it from your computer, till it is deposited into wheezio's db. Might it not be possible to simply have that login info stored in a cookie or some client side file and not even be transfered, ever, to wheezio, but instead only applied to the destination community? I'm pretty sure this is how my "Gmail Manager" firefox extension works when I check my email accounts. And might it not also be possible to create a nice little javascript popup bookmark that could create a web based widget you would use at a spur of the moment and eliminate the need for the desktop download. And how about if you are out and about, away from your browser of choice, the user could simply hit wheezio's site, login, pop up the widget window and then surf on to their favorite community and do their posting? Come on Steve, help these folks out here! (But keep up the fun/good work regardless!) What about creating a desktop widget (I apologize that I am having a brain freeze right now about some of their names) that would live outside of the browser. This way, when Steve is visiting all his buddy buddies at his various “worlds” and decides to reply to a message or broadcast to that particular community, instead of using that sites “compose” function he would use wheezio’s desktop widget? I’m sure some top notch encryption could be put in place (and explained to pain in the >>> users like Steve ;) ) stating that all your login info would be encrypted from the time you enter it from your computer, till it is deposited into wheezio’s db. Might it not be possible to simply have that login info stored in a cookie or some client side file and not even be transfered, ever, to wheezio, but instead only applied to the destination community? I’m pretty sure this is how my “Gmail Manager” firefox extension works when I check my email accounts.

And might it not also be possible to create a nice little javascript popup bookmark that could create a web based widget you would use at a spur of the moment and eliminate the need for the desktop download.

And how about if you are out and about, away from your browser of choice, the user could simply hit wheezio’s site, login, pop up the widget window and then surf on to their favorite community and do their posting?

Come on Steve, help these folks out here! (But keep up the fun/good work regardless!)

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