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Announcing SLAP

SLAP – Simple Lightweight Announcement Protocol Today, to only two close developer friends, I’m releasing a first prototype of a new project called SLAP (for Simple Lightweight Announcement Protocol). We’re going to begin multi-server testing of it as soon as possible. If you’re not a developer, you may not immediately grasp exactly what SLAP is [...]

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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, [...]

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OAuth and OMB post-sharing

This post has been superseded.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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Personal Publishing

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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