Last weekend I started playing with Telepathy_ and its tubes in
Elisa_. What I prototyped is two plugins:

- a Telepathy plugin able to:

  * join a Multi-User Chatroom (over local-xmpp or standard Jabber)
  * share a set of DBus Tubes in that room
  * connect to other Tubes shared in the room and do remote DBus calls

- a Recommended plugin able to:

  * get a list of media recommended by people from the chatroom
  * recommend a media to all people of the chatroom

The work is reallly early stage and I had issues connecting to a Jabber MUC, I need to debug it and eventually report to the Telepathy hackers :) Anyway, here's a little demo video showing off 2 Elisa users sharing Youtube video links over the local network. 

NB: Yes I know, Elisa on my MacMini is running slowww, on the eeepc it runs better ;)

.. raw:: html

   <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lCIkO6DUXfM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lCIkO6DUXfM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Many other cool features can be implemented following those principles:

- share media with your IM roster
- chat
- stream videos (?)
- media playback notifications over IM
- and many things I haven't yet thought about :)

.. _Telepathy: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org
.. _Elisa: http://elisa.fluendo.com