Marc's Voice

Imagine if we really COULD connect different systems together

I have to say I’m incredibly heartened at the prospect of inter-connecting various (so-called) ‘microblogging’ platforms together.

There’s a spec from the XMPP council called ‘XEP: microblogging over XMPP‘ - and now there’s also something called OpenMicroBlogging.org.

Somewhere between these two specs, and perhaps combined together we’ll (as an industry as a whole) achieve interop.

I’m not wishing Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Fred Wilson any harm and they certainly deserve credit, but unstable infrastructure aside - it’s something that MUST be done.

Only with redundancy can we achieve our open mesh of the future.  And in this particular area of ‘LiveWeb’ clients, backbones and communications - it’s even MORE critical that Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk and 100 others all share federated IDs and a common pool of content.

Now lets see what happens!