> Actually, I think this is an extension to microblogging. > > If I microblog: > > tcw: dickh re: #ESME standup time: 30min > todo: add different authentication to #ESME > working on: #ESME authentication > done: #esme authentication > > over the course of a day, those updates are meaningful to humans, but can > also be parsed and used to update structured data.
In fact, the idea is not new. Take a look at twitterdata.org : "...simple, open, semi-structured format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages...". That totally defines what we want to do with actions. Granted, you won't see as much interest in processing messages on Twitter as in a corporate environment, but @rtm, @timer and @iwantsandy are still quite popular. I also don't see this as something that replaces what ESME currently is, but as a way to extend ESME. Most likely the change wouldn't even be noticeable, like when Google introduced Calculator- there's no change in the interface, but if you typed "2+2" or "123 in hex" or "sin(pi/4) ^ 2", the result would get evaluated. Vassil
