[CentOS] Looking for a facebook / twitter desktop-like APP for general use

Tue Mar 1 19:08:48 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 03/01/11 10:59 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> Not today. My kids are all "modern, computer-savvy teens" (understand
> "teens" starts at about age 11 and lasts until about age 35).  They can
> Facebook *all* *day* but cannot compose an email to save their lives.
>
> I'll have to look into jabber.

jabber is a IM client

seems like what you want is more like a webpage with 'news items' on it, 
perhaps a blog like S9Y or Wordpress, and a  web browser window 
displaying the current page on the desktop, maybe that auto refreshes 
hourly or something.