I use twitter and I love it, but recently I’ve been frustrated with Twitter’s uptime and it’s got me thinking about having the data of who I connect to as mine instead of being owned by a company. Chats with Kewagi and Potatono led to the start of a Team Free Bird wiki.
There are a lot of businesses out there trying to copy twitter and do it better by making a better business site, but I don’t see any official open source projects building up. Still, with the amount of chitter chatter out there, I’m confident that it’s not far away. Check out these links and leave comments with other links or projects underway.
Joe’s take The comments are interesting here too. - Link
Graphsync - A challenge to get your personal info off of proprietary networks. - Link
Distributed Twitter in 20 Lines of code. - Link
APML - Link
XXMP - Link
Bre,
I think a lot of other people are wishing for the same thing. It’s going to happen!!
Joe C.
if you can find some way to bring all the things we love about connecting with one another together it would very cool: talking on the phone, going to parties/events, chillin’ at coffee shops, attending seminars/meetings, blogging, writing on walls, chatting, txting..
we really need to find a way to allow us to use a few services integrated well together so as to not load up one service entirely, even if we were to hold the data ourselves.
if you can do what wikipedia did for information for micro-blogging i think you’d have a hit!
best of luck,
You might want to read some post Danny O’Brien’s been writing over the last few months. He asked the question: “How much of our life that we share with the Web 2.0 giants do we really *need* to share? How much of these services can and should we be running from the comfort of our own homes?”
http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2007/08/16#1187285520
He links all the posts from there, so you can follow along if you get interested.
Bre,
What’s in Micro-blogging is most important for you? is it sharing your status? or is it quickly passing little information to people who follow you?
For you, how does it relate to bookmarking, e.g. del.icio.us or IM on the other hand?
My point is that it’s hard to create distributed open source system that will satisfy many - I just want to hear what is in it for you to see what are the most important parts here.
Thank you,
Sergey
Sergey,
Micro-blogging does a few things for me.
It works as an archive of places, thoughts, and datapoint conversations. I think the most important thing for me is that it gives me a chance to share and be shared with.
Part of me wonders, what’s next? Somehow it seems that distributed micro-blogging is a pathway to something even more connected. Maybe developed and simple group messaging functionality is around the next bend or some way of collaborating with the people you share with. It seems like the kinds of things that can happen are so vast and the potential for collaboration and sharing is so great, that I’m really curious to see how it all goes further. I have a few other ideas that haven’t really gelled in my head yet around different sharing possibilities.
Thanks for responding with your thoughtful comment.
Bre
Micro-blogging is valuable because it focuses thought into 140 characters, (just the right size to maintain meaning). Also connecting to a wide variety of people who you might not otherwise connect to, similar to the way the internet first functioned, when you could connect to researchers, and have access to ideas which otherwise came through watered down sources, (the press).
I do however think you are right to think about not allowing a corp. to hold your data. I have been wondering what will happen in a few years, after all this data-gathering has been occuring. Many developers of these apps only do so to get bought out by the highest bidder, which means a Google or MSFT. Absolute power always corrupts, so these companies are not likely to be highly interested in ethics when it comes to dealing with your “life’s data” spread amongst their “fields”.
sergey …
at best, for me, it is a small floating astral world that i get to drop into for a few moments when i connect with someone else’s thought forms …. and if they are writing from that place as well, it is magic …
second best, on the level of information and links and ideas about ideas, i can be surprised while pursuing interests
third, nearly useless, is what someone is doing at the moment
enjoy, gregory
Did you see Identi.ca - just released last week?