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By: Liens en vrac: Iphone, Rogers, Bell, Twitter, Flickr, Nexus, Identi.ca

Liens en vrac: Iphone, Rogers, Bell, Twitter, Flickr, Nexus, Identi.ca — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:55:49 +0000

[...] – Identi.ca: à découvrir, le premier service de micro-blogging en logiciel libre (Open source). Alors que toutes les plateformes sont fermées, Identi.ca offre la possibilité d’installer le logiciel sur son serveur et d’y apporter ses propres configurations. A surveiller car cette approche pourrait être bien utile pour les entreprises ou même les écoles. J’y reviendrais dans un futur billet mais en attendant vous pouvez lire les commentaires de Dave Winer et Hugh McGuire. [...]

By: Control Yourself » Blog Archive » Round-up #2

Control Yourself » Blog Archive » Round-up #2 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:41:32 +0000

[...] Hugh Mcguire has a thoughtful essay on Open Microblogging and what it could mean for the development of mobile computing in Micro Moblogging or Why Identica Matters. [...]

By: Blogging, podcasting and Twitter. Which one is a private corporation?

Blogging, podcasting and Twitter. Which one is a private corporation? — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:38:04 +0000

[...] Go read Hugh McGuire’s post, “Why identi.ca matters” – this is basically the post I wanted to write. Also of [...]

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:11:44 +0000

part of the identi.ca conglomerate is an open url shortener, http://ur1.ca which plans to make that data available… so one hopes that it’ll go in the direction you suggest.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:07:42 +0000

Also, there is valuable information in the sharing of URLs. A lot of Google’s algorithm is determined by people giving token nods in the direction of certain sites that have no social value. In this way Google still gives the advantage to established brands and the status quo.

Often my students would link to things just because they were a brand they recognized – not because they had any inherent social value. And I see this a lot in the blogosphere too.

Whereas URL’s in a microblogging community have a social value. They are social objects rather than footnotes. (Because there is no space for footnotes).

I sometimes wonder why TinyURL/snurl/whoever hasn’t used their data to give us indices of the most social URLs that day, etc. It’s the kind of thing O’Reilly has been looking for for ages.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:55:56 +0000

tags can be hacked using hashtags in the body of the post… “#politics #video” etc… can be extracted from the post easily.

alternately you could add tags to your posting mechanism, and keep them only in the links rss feed.

By: Daniel Haran

Daniel Haran — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:41:59 +0000

A service that listened for url’s in your micro-entries and auto-added them to del.icio.us (or other service) shouldn’t be too difficult to build.

Figuring out tags might be tricky, but the content of the entry (and its permalink) could be put in the “Note” field.

Adding options would also be difficult – it’s easier just to auto-add everything.