Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

Re:Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool by dryicerx on Sunday May 10, 2009 @07:03PM (#602652)

A DBUS like system for the internet (for message passing and multi casting events to registered handlers). It's like twitter, except for application to application/people communication.

You first visit the site and create a data structure and register it at the X service website. Then a application can send messages in that data structure to the X service. Other services/applications/websites/people can register (like following on twitter) various handlers on the X service. Any time the main application publishes a event to the X service, it's pushed out to all the listening handlers...

I guess when I write it down, doesn't so outlandish. Anyway, up for grabs.

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Re:Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool by lacker on Sunday May 10, 2009 @11:44PM (#602913)

I would use it. Can you also include a cross-browser javascript library to listen for these events? Push over http sucks and this could fix it.

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Re:Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool by mbrubeck on Monday May 11, 2009 @02:38PM (#603983)

Check out http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ (by Brad Fitzpatrick and another Google engineer).

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Re:Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool by klein_waffle on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:25PM (#602785)

That's not insane at all. That's just a generalization of Facebook/FriendFeed/Aardvark/etc. I've thought a lot about that too.

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Re:Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool by RiderOfGiraffes on Monday May 11, 2009 @03:58AM (#603155)

We already use a system like that for anonymous message passing between processes running on an internal network.

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