open micro blogging

Mike Cochranehttp://mikenz.geek.nz

Open Micro Blogging


Open Micro Blogging

● What is Micro Blogging?

● Current Sites

● User created features

● Current Issues

● Laconica (Open Source Micro Blogging)

● The Future


What is Micro Blogging?

“... is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and

publish them...”- Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging


What is Micro Blogging

Video Timehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

- CommonCraft http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter


Current Sites

● Twitter

● Twitter Clones

● Social Networks

● Aggregators


Twitter


Twitter

● Started July 2006

● March 2008

– Total Users: 1+ million

– Total Active Users: 200,000 per week

– Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

● Free SMS Updating and updates of friends statuses


Plurk


Pownce


BrightKite


Identi.ca


Facebook


MySpace


Bebo


Hi5


Plaxo


FriendFeed


HelloTxt


Ping.fm


HelloTxt


User created features / standards

● @username

● T username



● @username

● T username

● #hashtags



● @username

● T username

● #hashtags

● L: location



● @username

● T username

● #hashtags

● L: location

● track keyword

● URL Shortening


Current Issues

● Scaling

– Everyone relying on one site


Current Issues


Current Issues

● Scaling


– Spikes in load (natural disasters, conferences, product releases)


Current Issues

● Scaling


– Spikes in load (natural disasters, conferences, product releases)

– CMS vs Mailbox model


Current Issues

● Scaling

● Interoperability

– How many sites do I need to join?


Current Issues

● Scaling



– Why can't I follow someone on Twitter from Pownce?


Current Issues

● Scaling



– Why can't I follow someone on Twitter from Pownce?

– How do I find all my friends on all the sites?


Current Issues

● Scaling


● Open Data

– Give me back my social graph

– Give me back all my messages

– I'm moving to another service, can I take everything with me?


Laconica

http://laconi.ca

● Open Source Microblogging

● Apache / PHP5 / Mysql

● Affero GPL (AGPL)

● Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence on notices

● Federation


Laconica O-stuff

● OpenID login

● OAuth

● OpenMicroblogging


Laconica Stuff that didn't start with O

● RSS Feeds

● FoaF

● MicroID

● XFN

● XMPP

● Hashtags

● Search


Laconica Stuff that didn't start with O

● Email Update

● SMS via Email Update

● Twitter API


Laconica Installations● http://Identi.ca (the most popular)● http://smid.gen.nz (mine)

http://analyti.cchttp://laconica.kamleitner.comhttp://decafbad.com/laconicahttp://bartle.doomicile.dehttp://zeitgeisty.nethttp://menti.name/laconicahttp://downlode.org/Laconicahttp://georgology.com/laconicahttp://omb.kshep.nethttp://janene.dehttp://ningo.dehttp://mb.byzero.dehttp://opensourcefaith.org http://laconica.svenbilt.comhttp://portvangelists.org

http://pawwer.comhttp://teleprintr.comhttp://foaf2foaf.orghttp://www.gargargar.infohttp://micro.orient-lodge.comhttp://www.aoortic.comhttp://sportstwit.comhttp://baratin.filyb.infohttp://nbrightside.com/laconicahttp://micro.dajobe.orghttp://ublog.davromaniak.euhttp://laconica.superuser.com.auhttp://waka.mehttp://lastminute.telematicsfreedom.orghttp://wigw.ag


Laconica Federation


Laconica Future

● Always be able to install on Apache/PHP/MySQL

● Message Queuing, Mailbox Structure?, Caching

● Blocking

● Twitter (and clones) Updater

● Image/Audio/Video notices

● Geolocation

● XMPP Federation


The future (Web 3.0?)

● Microblogging sites will be connected

● Following people across sites will be the norm

● You'll be able to move sites and take everything with you

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