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| last edited by BillSeitz on May 5, 2008 5:46 am |
Dave Winer kicks off a discussion on the idea of an Open Twitter. I Commented, wondering what the key draw is. (Is there a need to Open Source now, or just be ready in case TwittEr shuts down?)
Jan'2008 update: more big outages, both in December and during the Steve Jobs [Mac World] keynote) have re-raised the idea of decentralizing this service. Both RSS and XMPP seem like key technologies. (Open Social Networking Model)
more people are talking about XMPP as a piece of the PubSub puzzle.
I understand that the Kamael Ia Frame Work (PyThon!) supports XMPP.
Feb28: he thinks replacement needs to be an API-compatible clone. I Commented to wonder whether the huge amount of traffic coming via their API was in a sense a low-quality burden for them (in other words, creating stability problems while not really delivery a whole lot of significant value, but just eye-candy for widget junkies).
Apr22: he's just publishing a separate RSS feed for [Micro Blog] bits he'd normally put through TwittEr, and adding that to his Friend Feed stream (plus of course you can subscribe to it directly).
Note you can also publish your GTalk status to Friend Feed.
I just updated my GTalk status (via AdiumX) and that showed up right away
changed status back to "Available" - that's not showing up promptly (09:20)
directly messaged the Friend Feed bot - that's not showing up promptly (09:22)
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