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by imaginator 13y ago
Be aware that push is very early. But there are two working implementations already - oTalk and Buddycloud ( https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-pusher ). What's interesting is that we both came up with very si
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by imaginator 13y ago
OTR works great when both parties/clients are online. I can't see how OTR would work when one client is offline since they need to both be online to do the key exchange dance. Happy to be corrected.
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by imaginator 13y ago
Ge0rg wrote that post shortly before the last XMPP summit. Then we put together the plans for push notifications ( https://github.com/legastero/customxeps/blob/gh-pages/extens... ) working in conjunction w
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by imaginator 13y ago
Background: XEPs are the protocol building blocks of XMPP. The XSF (XMPP Standards Foundation) are working hard to make XMPP more mobile friendly. (disclaimer: I'm an XMPP board member). There are three problems to solve: 1. knowing wh
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The C10M problem – how WhatsApp scales to millions of connections(erlangcentral.org)
2 points by imaginator 13y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 13y ago
Poll results: http://poy.time.com/2013/11/25/vote-now-who-should-be-times-...
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German politician meets with Snowden in Moscow(nytimes.com)
6 points by imaginator 13y ago|1 comments
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by imaginator 13y ago
StartSSL offer a great service. If you'd rather use the Java Keytool to manage your certs, I wrote up this guide on making it work with StartSSL. https://buddycloud.org/wiki/buddycloud_SSL_setup Should just be a c
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by imaginator 13y ago
I can understand licensing issues. But since Airplay only runs on the local network segment, this shouldn't be an issue.
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Scaling Buddycloud with Fanout.io(blog.buddycloud.com)
14 points by imaginator 13y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 13y ago
Archive.org has some Byte Magazine back issues (eg: http://archive.org/stream/BYTE-1993-05#page/n11/mode/2up )
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Awesome WiFi visualisation from re:publica(apps.opendatacity.de)
3 points by imaginator 13y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 13y ago
We're working on it at buddycloud: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/buddycloud-dev/jehtPgsCurQ/c... And as you say - there's a bunch of stuff to support if you go the traditional route and try to bolt on more crap to MUC or <message&#6
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by imaginator 13y ago
This incident discredits the FSF's legitimate and usually very good flagging of internet misdeeds. The FSF started out by saying Google was blocking some federation between domains [and the sky is falling down]. The implication being that b
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by imaginator 14y ago
This looks similar to the free Blinkendroid app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cbase.blin...
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by imaginator 14y ago
I've been pinging users on buddycloud, about why they signed up. Main reasons: they don't want another silo / want data portability and they like the idea of beign outside a company controlling their social networking experience Of couse
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Ethernet over barbed wire(sigcon.com)
9 points by imaginator 14y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
IMHO that pricetag is very good. Consider backhaul costs, upgrades and other maintenance, monitoring, etc. All covered by about the equivalent of a 1/4 NY sysadmin salary.
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Sony releases new "motiongraph" app on the Google Play Store(youtube.com)
4 points by imaginator 14y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 14y ago
Agreed: we have to focus on two levels - users and devs: This post has a more dev focus but we know that the look and feel and functionality for users is really important. To see what we are working on check out our prototypes that are now
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by imaginator 14y ago
Wordpress is free and open source - and help users that don't want to host their own blog with a simple way to host a blog on wordpress.com. If a user can spin-up a hosted buddycloud instance on their domain, that's got to be useful for the
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by imaginator 14y ago
I had been meaning to change that. Thanks https://github.com/buddycloud/webclient/commit/d7cc1f43103dd...
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by imaginator 14y ago
Good idea. Thanks. We're also working to solve the problems by keeping the design as intuitive as possible. Media sharing should be just a question of dragging and dropping the file in to the channel posting box (we're going to work on this
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by imaginator 14y ago
The difficult part is always key management: making a service that my mom can understand and manage and "just works". Our federation layer is built on XMPP. That gives us a pretty solid layer to extend chat and interoperate with gtalk and o
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by imaginator 14y ago
We know there are problems on the 1st gen iPad. Is that what you are using?
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by imaginator 14y ago
So we have to solve three big problems: build a distributed architecture, build great reference clients, get massive adoption. We've almost solved two of those and have a team working on the third problem: https://buddycloud.org/wiki/K-Fac
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by imaginator 14y ago
The unit of sharing is the channel. You start with a personal channel user@domain.com and can create any number of new channels (holiday-photos@domain.com). Each channel has followers, moderator etc that you can control access to (or just s
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by imaginator 14y ago
I like bitcoin: it started out as a protocol and reference implementation. That's what we are trying to do today. And I wouldn't be surprised if there is a a large overlap between bitcoin-ers and buddycloud-ers. Encryption (Client to server
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by imaginator 14y ago
PostgreSQL is used for storing channels (users posts, subscriptions, etc.) and metadata on media. Authentication is handled by the XMPP server - Prosody, ejabberd, OpenFire, etc. The XMPP protocol is documented on https://buddycloud.org/wi
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by imaginator 14y ago
There's two three things that count when building a distributed social network: easy to use client APIs, Server APIs (how do servers find and connect, catch up, etc) and a reference implementation. I'm not sure that Diaspora has a defined s

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