Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in Uncategorized, development on Nov 23rd, 2008
After spending quite a few hours on yesterdays post, OAuth and OMB post-sharing, it occurred to me with the first cup of coffee this morning that I had missed one important user interface twist in the use of OAuth that actually makes it quite necessary.
It depends on how the UI for subscribing works. If, as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2008
This post has been superseded. I missed an important web UI issue which lead me to an incorrect conclusion.
Square peg, round hole
The OpenMicroBlogging Specification (OMB) contains a section on the use of OAuth to authorize a remote service to post to a user’s local service. After spending some time studying the OAuth and OMB specs, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2008
There is renewed interest in trying to construct a microblogging platform using XMPP for the “push” or notification of followers. The Open Birdcage project is aiming to
establish a full environment for an XMPP based microblogging service. Environment means the full stack necessary beginning from protocol and API definitions to server side and client side implementations.
I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
Preface: I’m not really happy about the conceptual uniformity of this post, but I wanted to get the ideas out. There are really two things I’m talking about. First is the idea of a Personal Publishing site identified by my OpenID rather than accounts on individual publishing or messaging services. The second is the notion [...]
Posted in development on Jun 27th, 2008
This Sunday, June 29, 2008, I will be attending DevHouseBoston. I’ve proposed a project called Distributed Microblogging. My primary goal for the day is to get a UI defined. If we can prototype something, so much the better, but I think the discussions going on in the online community really need to have some attention [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2008
BarCampBoston3
I had the pleasure of speaking at BarCampBoston3 this past Saturday in Cambridge, MA on the topic “Distributed Twitter”. This was a well-attended event and the geek energy was high! BarCamps attract and cater to hard-core coders and implementers. Not many marketing, PR or media types were in evidence, but there were quite a few [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on May 6th, 2008
If you don’t read all of this admittedly long post, please do skip to the end and check out the BarCampBoston info. I’ll be holding a session there on the topic of Distributed Microblogging.
Ok, so let’s talk about the hard bits of doing Distributed Microblogging. It’s easy to envision a multitude of servers exchanging microblog [...]