[Laconica-dev] SMOB, SIOC and Laconica?

[John Breslin]

Great work with Laconica!  Testing it at www.tweet.ie and it works a 
dream...

As you may know, Alex, Tuukka, Uldis and I worked on the SMOB prototype 
for distributed / decentralised microblogging 
(http://smob.sioc-project.org/).  It uses FOAF and SIOC to model 
microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and 
the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing 
services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by 
each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of 
their own data through self hosting. The aggregate view of microblogs 
uses ARC2 for storage / querying and Exhibit (from SIMILE MIT) for the 
user interface.

It'd be interesting to explore how we could integrate SMOB into the 
OpenMicroBlogging world.  But also, it'd be great to SIOC-enable 
Laconica - for example, you can see third-party SIOC exports for Twitter 
at http://tools.opiumfield.com/twitter/ev/rdf and from Jaiku at 
http://sioku.sioc-project.org/tosioc/jyri

Looking forward to your ideas and responses (cross-posted to Laconica 
and SIOC mailing lists).

Thanks,

John.
--
For those who want to try out this distributed microblogging client, you 
can install it by doing a: "# svn co 
http://smob.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/client/" (Needs a site with PHP4 or 
greater.)  Then, make changes according to the README file (e.g. tell it 
which servers to ping).  You can also try the anonymous client at: 
http://smob.sioc-project.org/client  The server view is available at: 
http://smob.sioc-project.org/server (you can also get the code at 
http://smob.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/server/).  If you install your own 
client, you can configure it to post to your Twitter account simultaneously.