8月 18 2009
GadgeTweetr: The first and ultimate Twitter client on OpenSocial using OAuth
goo Home just launched its Outbound OAuth support from today. Now, any gadget developers on goo Home can easily mash up external contents authorized using OAuth.
For demonstration purpose, I’ve developed a gadget, which I believe is the world’s first Twitter client on OpenSocial using OAuth, called “GadgeTweetr“. GadgeTweetr is simple, but powerful, even on comparing to other desktop Twitter clients.
Major features
- OAuth Login
- Tabs
- Show In-Reply-To
- Search
- Multi-account
OAuth Login
With support of OAuth, GadgeTweetr can let users login to Twitter without giving credentials to goo Home. Just by clicking “Login” button, a new window opens with clear indication that the browser is showing page on twitter.com, users can login to Twitter safely without worrying this is phishing.
Tabs
Using OpenSocial tabset feature, GadgeTweetr provides view of various status pages like some other Twitter clients do. Timeline, Mentions, Direct Message, Favorites, etc.
Show In-Reply-To
If the status is in-reply-to someone, GadgeTweetr shows “reply to:” beside its date. Clicking it will insert source status just blow that, so that you can drill down (up?) to the original tweet.
Search
You can search on Twitter. GadgeTweetr opens search result tab.
Multi-account
User can embed multiple copies of GadgeTweetr gadgets on goo Home’s home page with different authentications. So you have multiple Twitter accounts in one view!
Misc features
3 views
GadgeTweetr has 3 views: home, profile and canvas. Home view provides Timeline, Mentions tabs, profile view provides its owner’s timeline, canvas view provides Timeline, Mentions, Direct Message, Favorites tabs as default.
Auto link
GadgeTweetr detects @ and # and hyper link it, as well as external link. External link will open new window. @ and # opens new tab in GadgeTweetr showing respective status.
ReTweet
By clicking ReTweet button, you can tweet copy of your favorite status message with indication of ReTweet: “RT”. Of course, you can add your comment just as you do on your own tweet.
Show profile
Clicking thumbnail of a user shows profile dialog with description of the person, numbers of friends, followers, tweets.
Follow, unfollow
On profile dialog, you can even follow or unfollow the user depending on your relationship with the user.
Summary
So, this is the “GadgeTweetr”. Sorry but this gadget only works on goo Home for now, since I don’t know any other containers which supports OAuth properly designed to deploy this kind of gadget.
However, this gadget is already supporting English and is ready to serve to other containers. Although current version is just a plain Twitter client, I’m planning to implement more SOCIAL functionality as well.
Hope this helps the evolution of social web!
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