RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 6 - XMPP
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Six days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.
It’s time for my 6th Twitter rant. I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s
No XMPP
frosts not only your petunias but the whole garden as well, eh?
Think about it. XMPP is the protocol used for Instant Messenging thingees like:
Polling is not required!
Would you believe, there are folks who are already starting to build a Twitter-like platform with XMPP? Consider the following:
….Introducing the XMPP application server: The Twitter example
ejabberd is probably the first XMPP application server ever released. This article introduces this new concept and explains how to build a distributed event-based infrastructure for social networking. The example application that illustrate this article is a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform.
Introduction
Since I designed the first version of the pluggable pubsub module for ejabberd in early 2007, I had in mind to turn it into a powerful application server. I have already blogged about the power of the new API of ejabberd 2.0 pubsub engine. However, this single article does not do any justice to this idea and how it can change the face of the web….
The XMPP application server: The Twitter case
The PEP implementation was still not enough to demonstrate that ejabberd is a fault-tolerant, highly scalable application development platform for the Web 2.0 era. I decided to start a serie of articles demonstrating how to build a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform based on ejabberd 2.0….MORE….
So it’s certainly possible…..and….so…..why hasn’t it be done already? It would make Twitter so much more…Twitterlike. :) What do you think?
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
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ps - speaking about Twitter, check out one of the developer interviews:
pps - and if you’d like to learn more about XMPP:
Jabber Developer’s Handbook (Developer’s Library)
Customer Reviews — Rating: 5 Date: 2005-04-26 Summary: Why nobody rate this nice book ? … Last year when I tried to look for jabber book, I picked up DJ Adams’s “Programming Jabber” because it got so many good reviews at amazon. But I’ve found that book rather confusing. I’m still confused with many topic, especially in how jabberd internal components interact. Well, I’m not native English speaker, so the fault could be on my side rather than the book. However, this “Jabber Developer’s Handbook” actually clearify many questions I’ve in mind through the use of many useful charts and diagrams. I’ve not finished …more
Editorial Reviews — [1] … Product Description | The Internet is evolving into an infrastructure where applications can converse with one another in a much different way than the traditional page-serving architectures of the first generation Web. Through examples and clear explanations, Jabber DeveloperI> demonstrates how Jabber, currently the worldtant open source messaging protocol, can be used to go beyond interactive chat and file sharing to build flexible, reliable, and powerful distributed software systems. Peer-to-peer applications…more
[2] … Download Description | The Internet is evolving into an infrastructure where applications can converse with one another in a much different way than the traditional page-serving architectures of the first generation Web. Through examples and clear explanations, Jabber Developer’s Handbook demonstrates how Jabber, currently the world’s most important open source messaging protocol, can be used to go beyond interactive chat and file sharing to build flexible, reliable, and powerful distributed software systems.…more
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Robbin
… Here’s what I think…
I think you speak a different language than me and I didn’t understand a word of your post.
Mar 30th, 2008
Owlbert
Hey Robbin!
That’s one of the joys of geek-speak! But never fear - all shall be revealed this Tuesday! I promise you, I will have solved all the Twitter rants that I have uncovered.
Enjoy,
Barbara
Mar 30th, 2008
Peter Saint-Andre
Oh they’re working on it, just haven’t deployed it yet…
Mar 31st, 2008
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