Hello,

It'd be nice to get all the info available from the HistoryForm sent using the External Notification option tab.  The external notification feature was real useful on the older version.

External Notifications are making a *huge* triumphant return in the next release.  I'll definately be looking for feedback on this feature in all it's various forms.

To summarize:

External Notifications are configurable per account and you can filter the friends list per notification type.  So you could have XboxFriends email you on every change, blog about your closest friends and send just those in your "clan" to a clan website where they can use that information for whatever they can think of.

For those familiar with the previous version, external notifications has been beefed up.  Now *all* state changes are active notifications.  Meaning that if you have XboxFriends for the Desktop running, you can notify (through email, blog, or http querystrings) when people come online, change from game to game and (this is the new part) when they go offline (or away).

Email Notifications

Just like it says, send an email for all state changes of those in the filtered friends list.

HTTP Notifications

This one exists in order to assist webmasters think up interesting new ways to utilize XboxFriends for the Desktop and incorporate the Xbox Live friends list state changes accordingly.

Blog It! Notifications

Not really sure of the usefulness of this, but it is soooo geek that it has to be included.  Blogging seems to be at the forefront of everyones mind, so XboxFriends for the Desktop now jumps into the frey and will blog all state changes to any MetaWebLog API supported blog engine.

So what do you guys think of the new features?

speaking of rss, if you could do that and have it log all changes to a local xml or something, you would be just a few steps away from having the history information again, but in a format where everyone can just go in and grab it and do what they want with it.

im not sure what this would do performance wise though..

also i would like to apologize, because im not very.. savvy when it comes to rss, and not even sure if its the same thing as xml, but in my mind.. an rss feed is just a regularly updated standardized xml document?

e1bweb:

an rss feed is just a regularly updated standardized xml document?

Thanks for adding the External Notifications so fast.

I'm having a problem getting it to work correctly though.  I'm not sure if the problem is with my code or XboxFriends.

I'm using the following config fo rexternal notification: