Everyone is entitled to my opinion (with a nod to David Brinkley).
Posted in development on Jun 27th, 2008
This Sunday, June 29, 2008, I will be attending DevHouseBoston. I’ve proposed a project called Distributed Microblogging. My primary goal for the day is to get a UI defined. If we can prototype something, so much the better, but I think the discussions going on in the online community really need to have some attention […]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on May 6th, 2008
If you don’t read all of this admittedly long post, please do skip to the end and check out the BarCampBoston info. I’ll be holding a session there on the topic of Distributed Microblogging.
Ok, so let’s talk about the hard bits of doing Distributed Microblogging. It’s easy to envision a multitude of servers exchanging microblog […]
Posted in Uncategorized, development on May 3rd, 2008
I want to quickly set down a high-altitude view of how I see a Distributed Twitter working. This should give you the basic concept, which I’ll then elaborate in more detail in subsequent posts.
First of all, let’s call it something more generic. I like Distributed MicroBlogging or DMB. The “Distributed” part is really the key. […]
Posted in development on Apr 20th, 2008
One of the things that drives everyone nuts about Twitter is its unreliability. In fact, it’s having a little case of the no-updates this morning (2008.04.20). This is a less frequently discussed but ultimately, I think, more important disadvantage to walled gardens. If you rely on a service and it goes down for maintenance or […]