Over the next few weeks I will be working on a client that will sit on my task bar monitor the forums for me and pop up when it detects certain keywords. It will allow me to see the thread and enter my response all without having to go to the web site.
These are the features I have planned:
Make a forum web method that shows the posts from the aggregated forums
It searches through the posts for keywords or posts you participated in
Shows you the complete thread
Allows you to make a post to the thread