I don't think that was the original problem that kicked off this discussion, but perhaps we can go down those rabbit holes in a different thread :-)
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Adam Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:46:02PM -0500, Henry H wrote: > > At this point, I'm not sure what problem you're trying to address. Too > many > > tangential discussions and not enough definition of key assumptions. > > > > Are you trying to come up with a universal, user-friendly way to provided > > unique identification for micro-blogging platforms that works across a > > federated environment? What protocol? SMS? XMPP? HTML/HTTP? SMTP? All > of > > them? > > > > If it's XMPP, it already exists and it works. And it works for SMS if you > > don't care about how long it is. It also works for HTML/HTTP. And it > also > > works for SMTP. It's [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the key assumption is name is > > unique within a domain. > > There are actually two problems here: > > 1) How to indicate that an otherwise unformatted message is a "reply" > instead of a standalone pronouncement. > > 2) How to address that reply. > > I think the twitter solution of @replies isn't bad for #1. For #2, it > clearly suffers from the domain problems we've discussed, but also > suffers internally to twitter in that you can't address a reply to a > specific message but only to a specific person. As an outsider to the > conversation, I'm often left wondering what any given reply is in > reference to, and also often finding that I don't care enough to dig > through the entire stream to find out. > > -- > - Adam > > ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management > **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture > ****** [ http://www.adamfields.com ] > > [ http://www.morningside-analytics.com ] .. Latest Venture > [ http://www.confabb.com ] ................ Founder > [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog > [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience > [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields ] ... Photos > [ http://www.aquicki.com/wiki ].............Wiki >
