A couple other thoughts:
* the format needs to be easy to *type*, especially on a phone.
* the user may not remember where their contact originated - i.e.,
I may not remember if I subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:44 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.
>
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