walkah: Joining StatusNet
Joining StatusNet
In case you missed the announcement yesterday, I have taken a position with the Montreal-based startup StatusNet. For the unfamiliar, StatusNet Inc is the company behind the StatusNet open source micro messaging platform.
I think StatusNet is a very interesting project and one I've been following for a long time. It's a true Open Source project that seems to be a perfect storm of technologies that interest me and a commitment to openness that I admire.
What really excites me about StatusNet, though, is challenge of federation. StatusNet installs currently ship with an implementation of a protocol known as OpenMicroBlogging. This means that you (or your company / organization or book club) can have your own real-time, micro messaging site (read: your own twitter) and if there's someone not on your site you'd like to follow, you can do so without having to register (and monitor) multiple sites.
We're currently planning a major update to the protocol to take advantage of some of the exciting new stuff like PubSubHubbub and ActivityStreams. I'm excited to get to work on the protocol and implementation and tell you all about it :-)
James Walker
Congrats!
Sounds like a fun gig... I'd love to see federated microblogging become the standard.
Congratulations
status.net looks like an exciting opportunity. Great to see you jumping on Pub/Sub work.
I wish you all the best!
Congrats
Congrats, James. I think you've been working on bits and pieces that lead directly to this stuff. And I fully expect "pants status" to be an extension to the protocol :P
Now I think you should go sell it to radio stations and newspapers.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! StatusNet seems to be getting a really great team together.
Did anyone notice?
I waited a few days... but seems no one responded to it. James called it a "Micro messaging platform". James is a fan of Jabber/XMPP... does this mean you will reform Status.net even more to fit the messaging paradigm?
Identi.ca
I immediately recognized the logo. I'm using Identi.ca - http://identi.ca/iflexion Is this a project of Status.net? The same logo. :)
Congrats on the new gig!
Congrats on the new gig! StatusNet is lucky to have you. :) The rest of us will miss you on the road, but glad to hear you'll have more time for your mini-mes.
Anxious to see what awesomeness comes from StatusNet from here forward.
Interesting but no examples
Conceptually I think I get how this would be useful, but picture is worth a thousand words, right?
I don't quite get why my business would prefer this over twitter.