Comments on: Decentralized Microblogging – Twitter 2.0?

By: SIOC-based microblogging : Alexandre Passant

SIOC-based microblogging : Alexandre Passant — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:05:11 +0000

[...] there have been a lot of buzz recently regarding ways to provide open alternatives to Twitter, then fun thing is that we [...]

By: John Breslin

John Breslin — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:12 +0000

We’ve recently written a paper showing (one prototype called SMOB of) how distributed / decentralised microblogging can work:

“Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach”

http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/papers/11.pdf

The SMOB prototype code (both the semantic microblogging publishing client and server-based web service) is available at:

http://smob.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

See some pictures and more information on my blog post at:

http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2008/05/09/prototype-for-distributed-decentralised-microblogging-using-semantics/

By: Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics at Cloudlands

Fri, 09 May 2008 15:19:36 +0000

[...] about a “decentralised Twitter”, which was picked up by Dave Winer, Marc Canter and Chris Saad amongst [...]

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » With a little exericise, Twitter will be in great health

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:45:35 +0000

[...] is preparing to face their scaling challenges head on and prove to Mike Arrington, Dave Winer and Chris Saad they can be a reliable and stable service. Their beliefs remain unabated until Twitter begins [...]

By: David Novakovic

David Novakovic — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:04:59 +0000

Sam: I just found out that jaiku was built using technologies that are a known factor to Google (python + twisted) which kinda explains why they ended up leaning that way. Incidentally, I think ralphm the guy whose jaiku page you linked to is also a twisted user.

randomwalker: I think the idea for most people would more be a plugin for your blog – so your blog _and_ your microblog are hosted in the same place

I’m looking forward to the new twitterverse, makes a lot more sense – like RSS and feed readers.

By: Dezentrales Microblogging at notizBlog - a private weblog written by Matthias Pfefferle

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:57:14 +0000

[...] veröffentlicht. “Twitter can be liberated” beschreibt unter anderem auch Chris Saads (Gründer von DataPortability.org) Lösungsvorschlag zu einem “dezentralen [...]

By: randomwalker

randomwalker — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:13:56 +0000

I’ve been hoping for a long time that decentralization would happen. Thank you for working out the technical details. Perhaps you should set up some sort of wiki for people interested in coming together to work on it. If server software becomes available I will be happy to run a server myself.

By: Igor Poltavskiy

Igor Poltavskiy — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:57:17 +0000

Decentralized Twitter (like WordPress)- interesting
idea.But long way from idea to service…

By: Isofarro

Isofarro — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:40:05 +0000

This is something to the discussions and draft specifications that happened in the development of Atom. It would be worth spending time sifting through the Atom mailing list threads covering XMPP, as well as http://www.xmpp.org/drafts/draft-saintandre-atompub-notify-05.html and the results of a Google search for they keywords XMPP and Atom.

There’s even working code from Rob Sayre at: http://www.franklinmint.fm/blog/archives/000603.html

By: Sam Sethi

Sam Sethi — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:36:11 +0000

Chris a better solution IMHO is Atom over XMPP http://philwilson.org/blog/2004/08/atom-over-xmpp.html which is not a new idea but one whose time I think is fast approaching.

This is what I expect Google to implement given Gtalk supports XMPP and that Google support Atom 1.0 via GData. What is even more exciting is the availability of Google’s BigTable as a storage mechanism which is both RESTful and can be queried via GData (Atom “Query” extension).

So I can see a distributed model using Google cloud/Bigtable to store messages and presence.

I think Google should have bought Twitter instead of Jaiku but it looks like people are experimenting with XMPP/Jaiku http://ralphm.jaiku.com/presence/24091590