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August 18, 2009

Blogger or the New Decentralised Twitter

So this morning, I come up to this article blogger-joins-hubbub .

what does this mean, for blogger?


We're happy to announce that Blogger has rolled out support for the PubSubHubbub protocol, which turns feeds into real-time streams. What does this mean to you? As feed readers adopt PubSubHubbub, your posts will surface immediately for their users

 we have to keep in mind that blogger is also in mobile. read blogger-mobile .

now let envisage the following situation :

1) you tweet to your blog.
2) your friend is  just the list of blog you are subscribed too.
3)people fellow you by subscribing to your blog.

now how to combine all the element ?

people have just to create a webapp, or a desktop app, that consume the feed (using the sub protocol) and that is able to post to a blog.

so the decentralized twitter, will be a set of (blog) interconnected by the protocol pubsubhubhub.

will this crash?

I think No, every one can host a blogger blog in his own domain.

ok that all for now, have to digg this more, I will try to come up with a detailed plan and a detailed post.

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August 16, 2009

Chronic of a stupid act (partII)

So, my answer to the question: does FF sell soon or later, is LATER.

now today I want to address a list of some (events) that catch my attention :

  1. Ben Darnell joined FF team on (27/07/2009), see FF related post, on the 10/08/2009 FF accept Facebook offer. the question to ask is why to grab a new talent from google in your company to sell the package 15 days after?
  2. why being the first to implement the PubSubHubHub protocol (to retrieve Google Reader shared item), witch may be interpreted as a step toward a rapprochement between the 2 service and then to sell to FB?
  3.  the still waiting for but heck we will may never read it facebook blog post on friendfeed acquisition, and why such even is resumed in facebook blog in just 2 line : "Earlier today, I used Facebook Search to get the latest about our recent acquisition of FriendFeed"

now, a line about the title of the precedent post title and this one (and maybe some to come), chronic of a stupid act is mainly addressed to my self (author) because you see, I predicted that FriendFeed will sell before the end of this year (see this discussion), but not to Facebook, I was waiting for FF+Google, and this was clearly a stupid phantasmagoria utopist vision of mine.

last word, still have no answer for the question N°1 in the list above. may you have a better opinion please let me know.

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August 11, 2009

Chronic of a stupid Act (part I)

Yesterday it was an enriching day for me.

FaceBook+FriendFeed !! (I was surprised to hear such news) I was always thinking that Google will make an offer to Friend Feed team, but they prefered to invest in something else (maybe wave).

now, it is a good news for Friend Feed! is it it the same for FaceBook?

let try to analyse this situation :

1)from the FF Blog :


We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle...

the underlined text is realy worth a second reading, "chilidish talk for immaturate user's" !! please note that I am just asking and not making any affirmation, FF user are mostly geek so they are mostly ready to get the words, no need for picture or a caricature.

ok let see the rest :

The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.

havn't more color to heightlight this paragraph.

but we can get at least thoses point :

  1. talented Facebook team
  2. great admirers of Facebook
  3. share a common vision
  4. Now we have the opportunity
  5. work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.

the point 4 is realy intreguing, havn't FF team get any opportunity before yesturday to sell to FB?

how was the FF team feeling this day "twitter-rejects-500-million-takeover-offer-from-facebook" ?

but the most important point is the point 5, reducing the number of social tool is reducing the number of ways to share with friends online. merging FF with FB is cuting down an other tool, it is a kind of substraction (plain and simple math).

now, this post begin to be long, the main question to end this is the fellonwing :

does FF sell too earlier or too late?!!

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August 3, 2009

Welcome

Welcome here to my first post. (just  a hello world)

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