Insight use cases for status and microblogging

These are use cases for status and microblogging services that we might want to provide through Insight.

I'm interested in @Fedora status messages.

 * RIGHT NOW: I don't know where Fedora's Identi.ca feed is. But if I take a wild guess and use http://identi.ca/fedora fortunately that's the right one.


 * SHINY FUTURE: On the Insight page there's an easy to see block that says Fedora Speaks! with easy links to the Identi.ca and Twitter feeds. The Twitter feed is de-emphasized a bit, which encourages me to look at Identi.ca if I don't know what it is.  But fortunately Fedora respects the fact that I'm already on Twitter so I can easily follow them, whichever I decide to use.


 * WIN: Tiny/medium


 * EFFORT: Small, just an RSS feed and a bit of appropriate graphics and hyperlinks in a block.

I work on Fedora social networking, and I want to send out a message.

 * RIGHT NOW: I share the account password with lots of people. (That works OK, but it worries me that someone might get access to my data.)  I visit our identi.ca page, log in, and set a status.  The status automatically echoes to Twitter too.


 * SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice for "Set Identi.ca/Twitter status". When I select it, I'm prompted for a 140-character maximum message.  When I select Forward, the system asks me to confirm the content.  Once I select Confirm, the status is posted to Identi.ca and then echoes automatically to Twitter via Identi.ca's built-in functionality.


 * WIN: Medium/huge


 * EFFORT: May be small, since the 100% all-FOSS brdcst.it service can take an RSS feed of status from anywhere and post it out to other services such as Identi.ca.

I work on Fedora social networking, and I want to reply to a user.

 * RIGHT NOW: (see shared password above, then...) I visit either Identi.ca or Twitter and click a link to find out if @fedora has been mentioned.  Then I reply in the WebUI to reply to the message.


 * SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice to see mentions of @fedora on Identi.ca/Twitter. When I select one, I have the option to reply to the message using the appropriate service, as above.


 * WIN: Medium


 * EFFORT: Probably substantial. Although there are easy ways to broadcast out and recapture feeds, it's getting harder to pull in site-specific stuff like mentions. (No incentive to provide this in the case of Twitter, where this is part of the value of the service.)