Comments on: The Twitter Monoculture http://blaynesucks.com/2009/01/19/the-twitter-monoculture and other thoughts on group stupidity.. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Facebook Logins and Job Interviews | Six Lines http://blaynesucks.com/2009/01/19/the-twitter-monoculture/comment-page-1#comment-713 Facebook Logins and Job Interviews | Six Lines Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:12:37 +0000 http://blaynesucks.com/?p=394#comment-713 [...] feed (like Twitter) and a private feed (like Facebook), but the bigger picture is that both of these web services are monocultures. They are single, centralized points of failure. No government employer should ask for a Facebook [...] [...] feed (like Twitter) and a private feed (like Facebook), but the bigger picture is that both of these web services are monocultures. They are single, centralized points of failure. No government employer should ask for a Facebook [...]

]]> By: Blayne Sucks » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the iPad http://blaynesucks.com/2009/01/19/the-twitter-monoculture/comment-page-1#comment-248 Blayne Sucks » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the iPad Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:12 +0000 http://blaynesucks.com/?p=394#comment-248 [...] nothing all that revolutionary in terms of hardware, but it’s definitely not x86. I generally disfavor computing monocultures. It’s not always that simple (PDF), but the general principle holds up [...] [...] nothing all that revolutionary in terms of hardware, but it’s definitely not x86. I generally disfavor computing monocultures. It’s not always that simple (PDF), but the general principle holds up [...]

]]> By: Evan Prodromou http://blaynesucks.com/2009/01/19/the-twitter-monoculture/comment-page-1#comment-93 Evan Prodromou Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:17:16 +0000 http://blaynesucks.com/?p=394#comment-93 My name's Evan; I'm the original creator of Laconica. We have >100 public Laconica sites that are connected using an open protocol called OpenMicroBlogging: http://openmicroblogging.org/ . It's a simple HTTP-based protocol that uses OAuth to let users authorize remote servers to push messages to their inboxes. It works very well. I think Laconica is a microblogging implementation, but I believe that any healthy open standard needs multiple implementations. As of right now, I know of two working ones for OMB. I'd like to see more; I've been trying to pull more mublog sites into the project. People who are interested in a federated microblogging network can do a lot to help. First, use a federated microblogging site, like http://identi.ca/ or your own installation. Second, encourage proprietary services like Plurk or Yammer to participate. Finally, people with coding skills can work to integrated OMB into Open Source mublog packages of their choice. Thanks for commenting on the subject; I'm glad more people are getting involved. My name’s Evan; I’m the original creator of Laconica.

We have >100 public Laconica sites that are connected using an open protocol called OpenMicroBlogging: http://openmicroblogging.org/ . It’s a simple HTTP-based protocol that uses OAuth to let users authorize remote servers to push messages to their inboxes. It works very well.

I think Laconica is a microblogging implementation, but I believe that any healthy open standard needs multiple implementations. As of right now, I know of two working ones for OMB. I’d like to see more; I’ve been trying to pull more mublog sites into the project.

People who are interested in a federated microblogging network can do a lot to help. First, use a federated microblogging site, like http://identi.ca/ or your own installation. Second, encourage proprietary services like Plurk or Yammer to participate. Finally, people with coding skills can work to integrated OMB into Open Source mublog packages of their choice.

Thanks for commenting on the subject; I’m glad more people are getting involved.

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