On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
>
> Your example is slightly counter to your argument. The thought put
> forth is that everyone can run a server of their own, with their own
> web sites, etc. So I'd be thomaschar...@kilomonkies.com. And how is
> gnhlug.org going to know
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 02/02/2009 12:35 AM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
>> Instead of
>> hosting a Web site in order to host a Web site, people are putting
>> "pages" on third-party services like Facebook.
> Most people don't want websites, actually. They wa
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Arc Riley wrote:
> The beauty in this is you don't even need a XMPP client running on your
> machine to access this data. If you have a client that understands the
> required extensions in a way that makes it useful to you, you can use your
> own client, or you can
On 02/02/2009 12:35 AM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:
> Instead of
> hosting a Web site in order to host a Web site, people are putting
> "pages" on third-party services like Facebook.
Most people don't want websites, actually. They want to share photos
and prose with their friends. Fewer stil
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
What's at issue is that the meaning of data is still left as an
> interpretation to the student. Yes, you can shove arbitrary data and
> publish that data. That data still needs to be adopted as a standard
> by everyone. As an example, co
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:35 AM, wrote:
> The whole facebook/meetup/myspace/
> mess seems to be the product of a number of factors:
> (1) People want web presence with prefabricated features like
> calendaring, blogging, guestbooks, voting, and messaging.
> (2) People want to network their
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Arc Riley wrote:
> That's hilarious! But jokes about PHP scripts and internet appliances
> aside, there *is* a real solution to this that's already accepted by the
> community at large.
> It's called XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
> Thanks to Go
>(1) With a suite of PHP scripts that could be installed on any
> hosting service that supports PHP (not hard to find).
>(2) By installing a special package on a Linksys router.
>(3) Developing an embedded Linux Internet appliance to host from a
> user's home/office connection. (Wh
That's hilarious! But jokes about PHP scripts and internet appliances
aside, there *is* a real solution to this that's already accepted by the
community at large.
It's called XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.
Thanks to Google and Livejournal there's already a huge userbase. It'
> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:46:31 -0500
> From: Arc Riley
> I'm tired of hearing people in the free software community whine about
> Facebook. There are a lot of programmers on this list. If you feel
> passionately enough about this to complain then let's build an alternative.
I haven't been wh
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