OpenMicroBlogging is a

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protocol that allows different

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services to inter-operate. It lets the user of one service subscribe to notices by a user of another service. This enables a federation of new communities,Stay, Jesse (2008-8-12
Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities
Retrieved 2009-1-4. as potentially an organization of any size can host a service. OpenMicroBlogging utilizes the

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and

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protocols and does not depend on any central authority. OpenMicroBlogging has been superseded by an enhanced version of it,

OStatus OStatus is an open standard for federated microblogging, allowing users on one website to send and receive status updates with users on another website. The standard describes how a suite of open protocols, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebS ...

History

The first implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed name to StatusNet in August 2009.

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is the first service to support OpenMicroBlogging,Mayfield, Ross (2008-7-2
Identica launches, an open source Twitter
Retrieved 2009-1-5. and other sizeable services including

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's Twit Army a
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were amongst those powered by the

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StatusNet.Malcolm Bastien
There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium
Retrieved 2009-3-24. Since March 2009 one can search users' accounts in Twit Army from within Identi.ca. You could also subscribe to accounts at Twit Army from your Identi.ca account. The second implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is th
OpenMicroBlogger
software.

External links

Implementations:
OpenMicroBlogger
Services
List of Independent StatusNet InstancesList of OpenMicroBlogger installations

References

Microblogging software Free software {{Compu-network-stub

History

See also

External links

References