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by imaginator 15y ago
buddycloud does this. Distributed, like email. Federated like email. Realtime. Your "home" server maintains an inbox of events since you were last connected. And we are working to standardise the protocol ( https://buddycloud.org/wiki/XMPP_
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New buddycloud server (coffeescript+node) for distributed social networking(buddycloud.com)
4 points by imaginator 15y ago|0 comments
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by imaginator 15y ago
For buddycloud's social location server ( https://github.com/buddycloud/location-butler ) we started out with Google but the rate limits and day limites were too low and they forbid caching. Now buddycloud uses Cloudmade which works well bu
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by imaginator 15y ago
I think the solution is to build caching into the "home server" - it keeps a copy / can quickly retrieve messages from a remote server.
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"Give me the 100 most recent messages" / syncing channel posts in buddycloud(buddycloud.com)
10 points by imaginator 15y ago|2 comments
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by imaginator 16y ago
If you don't want the pain of setting up ejabberd, Prodosy has http://code.google.com/p/prosody-modules/wiki/mod_websocket module already... And is much nicer to setup.
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by imaginator 16y ago
This is really great news. Having identity, presence and all the XMPP goodness delivered to the browser will be great!
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by imaginator 16y ago
(I'm the author of the post) I totally get where you are coming from. Of course protocols don't move fast. And sometimes we as implementors have to deal with people whose sole goal in life is upholding the sanctity of a protocol to the detr
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The API is Dead. Long Live the Protocol.(buddycloud.com)
44 points by imaginator 16y ago|11 comments
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by imaginator 16y ago
replying on hn since this may interest some other folks too. If you are interested in building something of worth and like the idea of open social networks and producing opensource software, there's always small modules that need building t
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by imaginator 16y ago
http://buddycloud.com is hiring interns to solve federated social web problems and build beautiful products. Remote working is not a problem. Ping simon simon@buddycloud.com directly if you are interested in finding out more.
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by imaginator 16y ago
Looking forward
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by imaginator 16y ago
I'm aiming for happy users. We have enough unused protocols specs floating around. Happy users come from good web and mobile clients and a good project goal (open, privacy you control, multiple server codebases, business friendly (they can
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by imaginator 16y ago
Someone published a Debian/Ubuntu package: add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid freedombox and execute "aptitude install channel-server"
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Buddycloud's node.js server just released(buddycloud.com)
36 points by imaginator 16y ago|10 comments
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Hacker News Munich Meetup
10 points by imaginator 16y ago|2 comments
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Keeping your social networking secret(buddycloud.com)
33 points by imaginator 16y ago|4 comments
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by imaginator 16y ago
We're also all participating in the http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/
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by imaginator 16y ago
Remember when Myspace was worth billions? How quickly the next hot thing comes crashing down: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/01/10/myspace-to-lay-...
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by imaginator 16y ago
How long until the novelty of seeing your friends' "Likes" wears off? If it's the ultimate advertising platform, where's the money?
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by imaginator 16y ago
"...And then how we can work together to create an open platform."
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Fix Social Networks' Fantasy Valuation Bullshit.(buddycloud.com)
11 points by imaginator 16y ago|24 comments
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by imaginator 16y ago
I'm sure they are aware of the analogy, but they are also enjoying the Goldman Sachs sponsored money-go-round and will eventually need to step off.
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by imaginator 16y ago
sometimes its about doing the right thing
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We are in the AOL days of social networking(buddycloud.com)
122 points by imaginator 16y ago|62 comments
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by imaginator 16y ago
Jabber, the universal chat protocol latterly known as XMPP^w^w^w^w^w^w^w^wThe federated message passing network known as XMPP. The virtues of a realtime decentralized but federated message passing network... reduced to "chat". Yeah, the cha
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by imaginator 16y ago
Das Labor (a hacker space) has been doing these cubes for a while. They even have a multi-colour cube now: http://www.das-labor.org/wiki/Blinken_Borgs
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by imaginator 16y ago
I stand corrected.
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by imaginator 16y ago
The keynote speaker, Jacob Applebaum, really knows how to woo the crowd. He has some great points like: "Even though the government has a monopoly on violence, violence cannot solve math problems." heh
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by imaginator 16y ago
To get a good overview of presentations today see: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/day_2010-12-27.e...

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