Creepy - my last blog entry has been answered quickly: waveprotocol.org
For now I am just stunned/baffled/startled and only want to reference Peter Saint-Andre's post XMPP: Catch the Wave (Warning, he over-promotes his book - I'm very OK with the post, though)
Also, to not double-info you anymore, I wanted to announce that I'm ยต-blogging over at identi.ca/reuben (x-posted to twitter.com/rhonigwachs)
PS: I'm not so sure if that was good branding.
The intertweets
2009-05-03
I have been checking out Lance Armstrong's attempt of a come back. Quite courageous in every sense *lol*. I also stumbled over his twitter account. Although I am not participating, I actually became very fond of it. Twitter has somehow gained a pretty bit of popularity in the sports industry and it's a refreshing source for a sports fan like me. Also since a lot of sports people have ignored blogs, unfortunately.
In general, many are critical about twitter without actually knowing about it very well. I usually recommend the twitter promo video for starters. I love and consume the basic idea, but I am skeptical for another reason.
I know you cannot expect people to actually create a complex decision matrix before diving into a service of this kind. And the simple act of grabbing stuff and fiddling around with it leads to other interesting things. But IMHO current features and developments of these services are not as promising as it were and still is with XMPP aka Jabber.
This open protocol solved a bunch of problems from the nineties, where chat systems were walled up from others, incompatible, and therefore not much fun. Now, you can run your own server for your domain and invite someone from Google, GMX etc. to chat with you. You can use a variety of software.
It's not only chat. The whole thing is intended to be extensible. And next to chat, it nowadays supports nice things like video and audio calls and people use it for all kinds of stuff from machine monitoring to geo-positioning.
Relating to twitter, the most interesting aspect to XMPP is probably pubsub... which I thought would do the trick for all of us. I am very sure a lot of other people are thinking the same way. I just hope some more things like PEP will evolve from this twitter boom - avoiding the word "hype".
While waiting patiently for true signs of a formation of the so called federated and open social network, I'll maybe check out twitter for myself... for now.
Update: It seems I am a little bit late on this. "Microblogging" is the keyword. stpeter.im/?s=microblogging and google.com/search?q=xmpp+microblogging
In general, many are critical about twitter without actually knowing about it very well. I usually recommend the twitter promo video for starters. I love and consume the basic idea, but I am skeptical for another reason.
I know you cannot expect people to actually create a complex decision matrix before diving into a service of this kind. And the simple act of grabbing stuff and fiddling around with it leads to other interesting things. But IMHO current features and developments of these services are not as promising as it were and still is with XMPP aka Jabber.
This open protocol solved a bunch of problems from the nineties, where chat systems were walled up from others, incompatible, and therefore not much fun. Now, you can run your own server for your domain and invite someone from Google, GMX etc. to chat with you. You can use a variety of software.
It's not only chat. The whole thing is intended to be extensible. And next to chat, it nowadays supports nice things like video and audio calls and people use it for all kinds of stuff from machine monitoring to geo-positioning.
Relating to twitter, the most interesting aspect to XMPP is probably pubsub... which I thought would do the trick for all of us. I am very sure a lot of other people are thinking the same way. I just hope some more things like PEP will evolve from this twitter boom - avoiding the word "hype".
While waiting patiently for true signs of a formation of the so called federated and open social network, I'll maybe check out twitter for myself... for now.
Update: It seems I am a little bit late on this. "Microblogging" is the keyword. stpeter.im/?s=microblogging and google.com/search?q=xmpp+microblogging
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