Comments on: Idea: IM Link History

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 17 May 2007 21:12:46 +0000

Thanks Julian for putting the bug in our ears about this one!

By: Ilya Burkaltsev

Ilya Burkaltsev — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:27:39 +0000

Blake, what is AdiumX?

By: RIck

RIck — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:04:31 +0000

great idea

By: nescius

nescius — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:18:06 +0000

well, its in kopete for some time, all links from contacts are stored into konqueror bookmarks in order of contacts and date, the bad thing is that it is for konqueror only..

By: blake

blake — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:49:43 +0000

I’ve been thinking about implementing something like this in AdiumX. I’m not sure how difficult it’d be though because Adium does not currently have a solid plug-in API. :(

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:15:43 +0000

If sparks had not spoken up I was going to. I was one of the apparently, few, users of that feature of Trillian back in the early days. :)

Thanks Julian for putting the bug in our ears about this one!

By: Songs of Doom » Blog Archive » URL Watcher Plugin

Songs of Doom » Blog Archive » URL Watcher Plugin — Wed, 31 May 2006 22:50:25 +0000

[…] Well, I read Julian’s blog entry about a link history for im clients, rather like those IRC users have been enjoying for years and I thought “Hey, that’d make a great Psi plugin. Now, if only Psi had plugin support.”. Of course, some moments later I remembered my Summer of Code project to write a plugin interface for Psi. I hastily implemented a few more functions, fixed those I’d recently broken and implemented my first semi-useful Psi plugin. Yes, it’s basic. No you can’t close the window, you’ll never get it back. No, the plugin doesn’t know the user’s display name and just shows the jid. On the other hand though, no, this is not a mockup, it’s working exactly as presented below. So, I give you a screenshot of an early alpha of the URL Watcher plugin for Psi. […]

By: julian

julian — Mon, 29 May 2006 22:49:33 +0000

See my above comment. ;)

Also note my description of the arrow… I consider linking back to context an essential feature as well.

There’s also the fact that IRC is much less directed than IM to begin with, so most of the URLs *start out* as useless, making the list of URLs useless as well.

By: Perry Lorier

Perry Lorier — Mon, 29 May 2006 21:51:52 +0000

mIRC has had this since the mid 90’s, I never really liked it, you never really had any context as to what a url was about. I implemented one that sniffed my IRC logs and would produce a webpage where it would fetch each new link in turn and parse the tag if any and use that instead. This helped a bit, but a lot of pages still have missing or useless tags (Untitled should not be a default title!).

Maybe something with a few lines of context per url, and fetches tags for users.

Another approach is the rdfweb’s “Chump bot” (http://usefulinc.com/chump/)

By: julian

julian — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:58:09 +0000

Very cool to hear others are interested in similar things. As always, UI makes a big difference.

Nice to hear it’s yet another feature Trillian already has… somewhere. ;)

I think that one of the larger issues with something like this is that it’s somewhat useless if it’s just a collection of all links you’ve received—I consider fading out (and eventually removing) visited links to be an essential feature. Too much information making the relevant information useless and all that.