https://identi.ca/doc/source
You read my mind. identi.ca is a really good idea, it's a pity that it hasn't managed to catch up with Twitter in terms of user base.
Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem
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#12Uh, DNS is too hard for most people. So is maintaining a web server. If you want any kind of reliability you're going to have to spend 10/year on domain name, 15/year on good DNS server, and 10/month on web hosting. That's $145/yr. Users can use twitter and facebook for free. Besides, the general public can't even use HTML well, so what chance do they have with xml? The other compelling thing about twitter is that 14…
I think his suggestions are for the people who are planning on writing a Twitter-like open service: https://join.app.net/
Except app.net isn't open in any of the ways Winer describes.
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#14He mentions the lack of a notifications system. Isn't there room in this open system for a ping type notification service or group of services? The benefit for such a service to be free would be that they could aggregate the data and mine it as twitter does. Then clients could fail back to polling should this service not be available.
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#16You could support existing RSS readers by putting the entire microblog post in the title field. And if you're worried about it being truncated, then duplicate it in the body.
Was confused myself as to why he doesn't do this. He mentions not having titles being an issue in Google Reader, but the same issue is apparent if you try to add the rss feed of his linkblog in Firefox; you just get a bunch of links with no details.
Do RSS titles have character limits?
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#17Over and over I emphasize that Twitter is not a public utility. If you're an organization that has to get your micromessage out there, you're better off hosting your own services.
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#19Why reinvent the wheel when XEP-0277 (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html) and OStatus (http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-2-s...) have already accreted quite a bit of thinking about what open microblogging could be ?
Re: Dave Winer: An open Twitter-like ecosystem
#20You could support existing RSS readers by putting the entire microblog post in the title field. And if you're worried about it being truncated, then duplicate it in the body.
Was confused myself as to why he doesn't do this. He mentions not having titles being an issue in Google Reader, but the same issue is apparent if you try to add the rss feed of his linkblog in Firefox; you just get a bunch of links with no details. Do RSS titles have character limits?
No, neither RSS nor Atom specify a maximum number of characters for TITLE elements. Which isn't to say that particular readers/clients don't truncate them, of course, just that the specs don't say they should.