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esafwan
esafwan

Reputation: 18029

Best way or platform to create a notifier

I'm attempting to build an notifier for a news website.. only function of the app will be to show notification when new news is added to the website. What will be the best platform for this function.

Air? Vb.net? or anything else?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (2)

ern0
ern0

Reputation: 3172

Do you think, it's a good idea to ask the users to install an application which is only for that site? Will they install? I don't think so.

Instead, you should use existing notification systems. See, ebay.com can notify you on various actions (overbid, won etc.) via IM: AOL, Windows Live, and Yahoo!. I think, Jabber (Google Talk) is missing.

If you use IM notification, it will run on all platforms, including smartphones.

Maybe, Twitter is also a good platform: it's public, you don't have to deal with registration, and you have some information about your subscribers.

Upvotes: 0

Donovan
Donovan

Reputation: 6122

I would like to hear other answers, this question is interesting.

I think Air may be the right choice, but: if you already know a little about different programming languages, why not use a different language for each platform? I think this is not the best choice for very big applications, but a notifier is a simple thing (just my opinion: sometimes I prefer that over forcing users to download Air in order to use that application).

Upvotes: 0

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