Receive BBC World news as XMPP Messages (with a little help of our great PubSub friend)!

April 29 - 2009

Just add bbc-news@xmpp.lobstermonster.org as a contact to your XMPP Account to start receiving notifications of latest BBC World News. When you don't want to receive notifications anymore, just unsubscribe from bbc-news@xmpp.lobstermonster.org.

I did a long train trip back home and had time to study some PubSub -stuff. I wanted to try it after in practice so I did this simple service. The service works in a way, that when you subscribe yourself to user bbc-news, it automatically subscribes you to a bbc_world -PubSub node I have created. When a News item is published to the PubSub node, it is then sent to all the subscribers.

Ofcourse you can subscribe to the service as you subscribe to any PubSub node, but the reason I did the subscription to the service using bbc-news -user, is to make the service more user friendly. For example otherwise gTalk accounts would have been hard to get working with this easilly.

Features I will still implement:

  • Possible for end users to define when to recieve notifications by end users presence status
  • Possible for end users to define if he want's to receive the messages as XMPP Message type Chat or Normal
  • Possible for end users to leave comments to the items that are distributed between all the subscribers.

So subscribe to bbc-news@xmpp.lobstermonster.org and learn what is happening in the world!

Following other services are now also available:

  • 20minutos@xmpp.lobstermonster.org
  • yle-uutiset@xmpp.lobstermonster.org
  • yle-urheilu@xmpp.lobstermonster.org
  • planet-jabber@xmpp.lobstermonster.org
  • one_small_voice@xmpp.lobstermonster.org

PS. If there are any RSS feeds you would like to read like this, don't hesitate to tell it to me, and I'll add the feed!

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