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Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:45:29 -0000

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Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:40:14 -0000

One of the core value of twitter is that is provides a global namespace. I think that this would be the hardest part to replicate in a silo-ed, distributed model. No?

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Colin Devroe — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:33:35 -0000

I scrolled down through the thread here to see if someone mentioned Prologue. The major thing missing here is SMS support (if that is important to you). Also following.

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Raimo van der Klein — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:23:41 -0000

Hi,

We recently(last week) launched Zcapes.. We aggregate conversations around objects. We let people publish their own Zcape. A mini blog for mobile concentrated around an object or event(preferably linked to the real world). The twitterbox, which is bascially a filter on keyword, is very popular.

Zcapes Builder: zcapes.com
Mobile Zcapes: m.zcapes.com

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

bsoist — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:56 -0000

Well said. I see a lot of "Internet Marketers" on Twitter. I've been using the Internet for almost 20 years and I've even used it for my own financial benefit (responsibly), but I still can't wrap my head around "Internet Marketer."

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:14:26 -0000

There are also a lot of people on Twitter nowadays who see it as a business model, and that kind of spoils the whole thing. It's one of the reasons I stopped going to tech conferences, it stopped being about exchanging ideas and looking for things we could do together and became more like what I described at the end of the piece about making money with blogs. "I have to give you a pitch or else I can't justify being here, and the only question I have is which pitch should I give you." I can stay home for that and get that watching TV. :-)

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

bsoist — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:03:22 -0000

I believe you made similar comments about Digg a while back. This is a valid point. Some services are fantastic until they become over-crowded. I like following about 700 people on Twitter and I feel like I know who is who but there is a lot of echo now.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

James Hogan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:10:35 -0000

I'm an undergraduate at Tipperary Institute studying Creative Multimedia at and I'm building a service called pachume for my final year project, twitter but with channels, comments, and private groups. But what I need is a @stephenfry or @wossy or @barackobama to join and give my service authority. Until the major players start to disseminate their views across multiple platforms it's going to be hard for these other services to take off. Although a company wide twitter intranet would be a great solution for any business' internal dialogue development.

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Thejesh GN — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:56:06 -0000

I do the same at http://thej.in it works for me.

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Gerrit Eicker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:10 -0000

Exactly. I'm wondering why Prologue/WordPress didn't make it to be #3? There are alternatives out there. Simply use them. I'm micro-blogging at http://Wir-sprechen-Online.com, a WordPress.com-Prologue-blog that sends my "tweets" to Twitter, other (Laconica based) micro-blogging services, and even Facebook. Those centralized services remain as a feedback-channel. At least for a transition period...

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.LAG — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:28:45 -0000

"I think Facebook did the right thing by spelling out in black and white the reality of the Internet. Once you hit publish, it's gone."— well said. That's it in a nutshell.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Vasudev Ram — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:26:43 -0000

Dave, App Engine deployment is dead easy - almost just a push of a button, really - at least for simple apps (which I've tried, not done any complicated ones yet). Also, search for and read what others have to say about this. The ease is comparable to PHP script deployment on vanilla, widely-available shared-hosting providers, where you just copy your scripts (and 3rd party libraries, if any) to your shared host, and are ready to go. Ease of deployment is one of the best things about Google App Engine, though there are other pluses too (and some issues or restrictions, of course).

- Vasudev

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malatmals — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:41:01 -0000

My favorite don quixote picture

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu:80...

by Salvador Dali

from the book (and others) http://www.csdl.tamu.edu:80...

That's rather an amazing project http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/ce...

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Alex Leonard — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:02:28 -0000

And of course, there's the possibilities of Jaiku when it open sources. Will be interesting to see where that goes.

Prologue, as mentioned by azizhp, is pretty nice too, and certainly BuddyPress looks very interesting and if it gets a little easier to install there could be a lot going for it.

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Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:57:40 -0000

if you're interested i can easily set up a demo. drop me an email at apoonawa-blog@yahoo.com

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Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:46:27 -0000

actually, the Prologue Theme for Wordpress pretty much fits the bill. Anyone who runs wordpress can use it. For a great example, see Talk Islam: http://talkislam.info. Note that if you run Prologue on Wordpress MU, you can also use the Buddypress plugins and thereby get direct messaging and profile functionality too. its basically feature complete, aside from @replies (but that could be a simple plugin).

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

anu — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:34:06 -0000

Why not just use twitter ? Create a new account - protect it (or don't) - follow the small group of people you want to, and you're done.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Bertil — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:44:54 -0000

I certainly agree that we need a Open Source / forkable version of Twitter — but I'm not sure the practice have settled yet, and I'd rather have the disagreements be clear to most before splitting the current efforts. In that sense, Zuckerberg public statement that we disagree on what to do with our information is interesting.

For instance, I'm positive there are more then 800 people that have interesting things to say to you — but that most of what your 50 closest friends say isn't that interesting. Twitter doesn't have an efficient rating or quality filtering system; nobody leverages (or uses) the staring system. One might use hashtags for taging, but it's not ideal. Would you agree some filtering wouldn't be too much?

If you manage to implement what you describe, please include that in the specs for v. 2.0

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

Sam Sethi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:27 -0000

Dave please have a look at www.twitblogs.com very early alpha still but built on opensolaris, mysql and zendphp. The version being built will be an opensocial container to support third party apps and also we have just implemented an internal build that supports the twitter oauth api and openid for authentication. Please try it and let us know what you think?

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Matteo Brunati — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:52:30 -0000

what about semantic microblogging, like smob?
based or connected with talis platform.. ( semantic web store service as amazon s3, info on http://www.talis.com/platfo... )
with a nice interface, of course, and no technical details .)

some info on http://bnode.org/blog/2009/...

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Ralf — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:52:04 -0000

we help to build the federated system with bleeper.de - largest laconica site outside North America !!

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:51:21 -0000

I'm not giving up anything -- I'm going to keep building my network on
Twitter.

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fredericsidler — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:43:06 -0000

Why would you start everything again. Twitter seems to be the most open service between the most popular http://amandafrench.net/200... You spent 2 years building your network on Twitter with more than 18,452 followers. Are you ready to do it again. I doubt about that. Unless Twitter dies and you lost all your posts and FOAF. First thing every user should check on new services is the way to back up its datas and social graph (if this possible). I put more than 4 years of bookmarks on delicious, but I do use Amazon S3 to back it up regulary with a cron like http://adamstiles.com/2005/... Nobody want to loose the time he spent on different social network. Nobody want to loose it comments. Do you give them to cocomment.com, disqus.com, etc. Even with some bookmarks, you cannot trust them as links sometimes disapear ;-( Of course a de-centralized way to store it own datas and connect them with the others would be great, but who can afford it. And every entreprise will try to get the contents and the users.

I think everyone should keep it datas and be able to distribute them (partially or totally) to an existing service or a new one if this one change his TOS or disapear. With all new services coming out, you can see for example that your existing social graph is very important. Lots of service invites you to invite your twitter friends, facebook friends (fbconnect) or gmail address book.

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:30:38 -0000

This is the architecture i've been working on for http://openmicroblogger.org -- my microblog software which is network-compatible with Laconi.ca and can be themed with WordPress themes. It uses a restful mvc back-end of my own design which can work with a few WordPress plug-ins as well as a lot of existing WordPress themes.

I'm using the Nutch tomcat-based search engine for testing, it exposes OpenSearch results, does anybody have any recommendations for other engines with OpenSearch built-in? I suppose Lucene has it but I haven't tried that yet.

In the config.yml for openmicroblogger is a "ping_server" option, which is where each installed microblog server will post URLs of newly created content for the search server to index.

Another interesting config.yml option is the Zeep Mobile API key, you can get one free from http://zeepmobile.com to enable 2-way SMS from your own site.

I have an Ubuntu EC2 instance i've been working on, and will post an AMI here when it's ready.

http://open.srcphp.com/proj...

-- Brian

Re: Where is Twitter's WordPress? (Scripting News)

ErikSchwartz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:22:00 -0000

Twitter got way more useful for me when I unfollowed a whole pile of folks and got more selective about new follows.

Now that I'm using tweekdeck and taking advantage of the groups feature twitter is much more useful. What would be nice is a clean interface for the sharing of groups (it would also make a good recommendation tool). If groups are then tagged it starts to add the context and the structure to the data that twitter so desperately needs.