On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:26 PM, anders conbere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) it's all just pubsub ... The problem that needs > solving here, is creating easy tools to distribute > and interact with pubsub systems. Please believe me when I say that I, founder of the now defunct PubSub.com, completely understand that it is "all just pubsub" -- except the parts that aren't (like search...).
In any case, simply recognizing that all sorts of user interfaces can be put on the same base set of PubSub capabilities makes me worry that if we don't get the underlying protocol well established soon, we'll end up seeing the "interfaces" drift far from what can reasonably be smoothed out with UI code. > If [EMAIL PROTECTED] want's to follow another user > on service1, he can tell the bot "follow user2" (local > name is implied), if he wants to follow a user on > service2 he can tell the bot "follow > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and if he wants to follow a > JID that is registered at service2 he can tell the > bot "follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] via service2.com". This would argue for setting the expectation that users are identified by a JID rather than the current practice which is to identify users by the address of their syndication feeds or their local names. Thus, in message content, you should expect to identify me as something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not as "http://identi.ca/bobwyman"; or even @bobwyman: identi.ca (something I've seen lately...) If we expect this to be the case, shouldn't we be lobbying the developers of identi.ca, twitter, etc. to start supporting this convention? bob wyman
