Software:OpenMicroBlogging

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OpenMicroBlogging is a deprecated communication protocol that allows different microblogging services to interoperate with each other. It lets the user of one service subscribe to statuses from a user of another service. This enables the creation of a federation of new communities,[1] as an individual or organization of any size can host a service that supports the protocol. OpenMicroBlogging utilizes the OAuth and Yadis protocols and does not depend on any central authority.

OpenMicroBlogging has been superseded[2] by an enhanced version of it, OStatus.[3]

History

The original implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed its name to StatusNet in August 2009.[4] Identi.ca is the first service to support OpenMicroBlogging,[5] and other sizeable services including Leo Laporte's Twit Army were amongst those powered by the open source software.[6]

Since March 2009, one can search users' accounts in Twit Army from within Identi.ca. You could also subscribe to accounts at Twit Army from your Identi.ca account.

A third-party implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the OpenMicroBlogger software.

See also

Implementations:

Services

References

  1. ↑ Stay, Jesse (2008-8-12) Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities. Retrieved 2009-1-4.
  2. ↑ Prodromou, Evan. "Understanding OStatus". Status.Net. http://status.net/2010/03/07/understanding-ostatus. 
  3. ↑ OStatus[Usurped!]
  4. ↑ Laconica is now StatusNet
  5. ↑ Mayfield, Ross (2008-7-2) Identica launches, an open source Twitter. Retrieved 2009-1-5.
  6. ↑ Malcolm Bastien, There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium. Retrieved 2009-3-24.



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