Open-Birdcage Project
This place is dedicated to establish a full environment for an XMPP based microblogging service. Environment means the full stack necessary beginning from protocol and API definitions to server side and client side implementations.
Articles/Discussions
all things you think that might make a good read on the topic
- Introducing Twoorl at erlang mailinglist - nice read on distributed services
- zeank's xmpp and microblogging - let’s do it!
- johl's XMPP and Microblogging
- Jack Moffit's XMPP Microblogging Thoughts
- Jack Moffit's An XMPP Microblogging Stack
- Joe Cascio on Decoupling Publishing from Notification
Specs
- Microblogging XEP proposal
- http://openmicroblogging.org/
- Twitter's API
- RFC 5023 - The Atom Publishing Protocol
- XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities
Similar approaches
Components
- mod_tweet - some playground for testing initial ideas
- mod_pep_log? - log PEP items and make them available via pubsub
- Web Client? - access stuff by web
- Desktop App? - a native client for desktop use (like twhirl, twitterific ...)
