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Facebook’s Experimental Desktop Notifications App For Mac

16 points by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
this is very well done for a v .5. I post articles like this for another reason: Someone please build this for "everything". I currently have a fb, twitter, and gmail notifier app. I'd love instant RSS updates, along with stocks. Push it to me. Also make it an open api that any company can push to. There's adobe wave, but that's missing the mark somehow. I'd pay for this, without a doubt. If there's some lone hacker out there with a half filled out YC W10 app and/or some code going on in textmate, please please please make this. I'd love to give you my money.
- derefr 17y ago
  Very true. I'm hoping that once the RSSCloud/PuSH thing starts being iterated on, everyone will latch onto that for broadcasting out anything at all, and "Pushed Notifications" will become a system-level service as obvious and integral to the modern desktop experience as automatic updating (which could then be based on it, I suppose!)
- dangrover 17y ago
  Growl could get there.
  - bhousel 17y ago
    Isn't Growl there already?
omgsean 17y ago
I've hardly been using Facebook at all lately, but I bet it that combining an application like this with deleting 90% of my "friends" would make it very useful. I think maybe the killer feature that Facebook is missing is marking someone as your actual friend.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  Do what I did: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-filter-out-facebook-friends-without-them-knowing-2009-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-filter-out-facebook-fr... I have 1500 "friends". I made a list of < 70 people I actually know. That's my main news feed. Love it.
  - omgsean 17y ago
    This just made my day!
- unalone 17y ago
  There might actually be a slim chance for a start-up attempting to differentiate actual friends. My solution was more extreme but works: I have <20 friends on Facebook, and remove people even if I'm their friend but don't particularly enjoy their Facebook page.

this is very well done for a v .5. I post articles like this for another reason: Someone please build this for "everything". I currently have a fb, twitter, and gmail notifier app. I'd love instant RSS updates, along with stocks. Push it to me. Also make it an open api that any company can push to. There's adobe wave, but that's missing the mark somehow. I'd pay for this, without a doubt. If there's some lone hacker out there with a half filled out YC W10 app and/or some code going on in textmate, please please please make this. I'd love to give you my money.

derefr 17y ago
Very true. I'm hoping that once the RSSCloud/PuSH thing starts being iterated on, everyone will latch onto that for broadcasting out anything at all, and "Pushed Notifications" will become a system-level service as obvious and integral to the modern desktop experience as automatic updating (which could then be based on it, I suppose!)
dangrover 17y ago
Growl could get there.
- bhousel 17y ago
  Isn't Growl there already?

omgsean 17y ago

I've hardly been using Facebook at all lately, but I bet it that combining an application like this with deleting 90% of my "friends" would make it very useful. I think maybe the killer feature that Facebook is missing is marking someone as your actual friend.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
Do what I did: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-filter-out-facebook-friends-without-them-knowing-2009-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-filter-out-facebook-fr... I have 1500 "friends". I made a list of < 70 people I actually know. That's my main news feed. Love it.
- omgsean 17y ago
  This just made my day!
unalone 17y ago
There might actually be a slim chance for a start-up attempting to differentiate actual friends. My solution was more extreme but works: I have <20 friends on Facebook, and remove people even if I'm their friend but don't particularly enjoy their Facebook page.