Various Topics on Programming

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Hello everyone, I'm sorry this topic may not fit the discussion domain, but
i've not found better one.
Hmm recently I come to this idea, since i like to review the news throught
the net by diffrent sites - a new browser pluggin which would display the
news messages in a fashion that is now from TV channels - like on CNN or BBC
sometimes ( Or similiar to SimCity3000 news panel. : I mean a stripe at a
bottom of the screen moving right to left .... The short messeges might be
linked to the sites presenting the whole topic. It would load the messeges
from the top+news sites and link it. Wouldn't it be cool ? Hasn't already
such pllugin or application been created ?

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:49:17 +0200, "Thomas" <arabel9@o2.pl> wrote:

>Hello everyone, I'm sorry this topic may not fit the discussion domain, but
>i've not found better one.
>Hmm recently I come to this idea, since i like to review the news throught
>the net by diffrent sites - a new browser pluggin which would display the
>news messages in a fashion that is now from TV channels - like on CNN or BBC
>sometimes ( Or similiar to SimCity3000 news panel. : I mean a stripe at a
>bottom of the screen moving right to left .... The short messeges might be
>linked to the sites presenting the whole topic. It would load the messeges
>from the top+news sites and link it. Wouldn't it be cool ? Hasn't already
>such pllugin or application been created ?
>
>
http://software.techrepublic.com.com...x?docid=215485

Not a plugin, but maybe even better.

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ

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Thomas wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm sorry this topic may not fit the discussion domain, but
> i've not found better one.
> Hmm recently I come to this idea, since i like to review the news throught
> the net by diffrent sites - a new browser pluggin which would display the
> news messages in a fashion that is now from TV channels - like on CNN or BBC
> sometimes ( Or similiar to SimCity3000 news panel. : I mean a stripe at a
> bottom of the screen moving right to left .... The short messeges might be
> linked to the sites presenting the whole topic. It would load the messeges
> from the top+news sites and link it. Wouldn't it be cool ? Hasn't already
> such pllugin or application been created ?

Well, you may remember a company call PointCast tried to do this in around
1997. They had a screensaver (and maybe a browser plugin -- can't remember)
that scrolled a ticker of constantly-updating information across your screen.
It used much-hyped "push technology" to do its thing.

I can't find much information available about it now, but here's a
Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_(dotcom)

- Logan

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My thinking would be to embrace new technology, i'm sure you could
throw together a quick Java app that just pulled in a load of RSS
feeds from website's chosen by you and then scroll's the information
across the screen linking to the main page. As most big news companies
produce RSS feeds and update them regulary you could just poll it
every so often a little like SMTP. Or if RSS servers support it just
check to see if changed occured...

I havent read around RSS too much, but shouldnt be to hard to do! =)