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Mike Cochranehttp://mikenz.geek.nz
Open Micro Blogging
Mike Cochranehttp://mikenz.geek.nz
Open Micro Blogging
● What is Micro Blogging?
● Current Sites
● User created features
● Current Issues
● Laconica (Open Source Micro Blogging)
● The Future
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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
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What is Micro Blogging
Video Timehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
- CommonCraft http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
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Current Sites
● Twitter Clones
● Social Networks
● Aggregators
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● 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
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Plurk
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Pownce
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BrightKite
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Identi.ca
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MySpace
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Bebo
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Hi5
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Plaxo
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FriendFeed
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HelloTxt
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Ping.fm
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HelloTxt
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User created features / standards
● @username
● T username
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User created features / standards
● @username
● T username
● #hashtags
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User created features / standards
● @username
● T username
● #hashtags
● L: location
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User created features / standards
● @username
● T username
● #hashtags
● L: location
● track keyword
● URL Shortening
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Current Issues
● Scaling
– Everyone relying on one site
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Current Issues
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Current Issues
● Scaling
– Everyone relying on one site
– Spikes in load (natural disasters, conferences, product releases)
Mike Cochranehttp://mikenz.geek.nz
Current Issues
● Scaling
– Everyone relying on one site
– Spikes in load (natural disasters, conferences, product releases)
– CMS vs Mailbox model
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Current Issues
● Scaling
● Interoperability
– How many sites do I need to join?
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Current Issues
● Scaling
● Interoperability
– How many sites do I need to join?
– Why can't I follow someone on Twitter from Pownce?
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Current Issues
● Scaling
● Interoperability
– How many sites do I need to join?
– Why can't I follow someone on Twitter from Pownce?
– How do I find all my friends on all the sites?
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Current Issues
● Scaling
● Interoperability
● 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?
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Laconica
http://laconi.ca
● Open Source Microblogging
● Apache / PHP5 / Mysql
● Affero GPL (AGPL)
● Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence on notices
● Federation
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Laconica O-stuff
● OpenID login
● OAuth
● OpenMicroblogging
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Laconica Stuff that didn't start with O
● RSS Feeds
● FoaF
● MicroID
● XFN
● XMPP
● Hashtags
● Search
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Laconica Stuff that didn't start with O
● Email Update
● SMS via Email Update
● Twitter API
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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
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Laconica Federation
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Laconica Federation
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Laconica Federation
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Laconica Federation
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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
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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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