{"id":463,"date":"2009-04-23T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=463"},"modified":"2009-04-23T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:12:59","slug":"birdfeeder-might-be-onto-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"BirdFeeder &#8211; Might Be Onto Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of this I dismissed it as I thought they were talking about the demise of email due to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>. That would be a ridiculous notion. However, after getting into the presentation further, (found here) I realized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dsandler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Sandler<\/a> might be onto something.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/brdfdr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BirdFeeder website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Birdfeeder<\/strong> is the prototype implementation of a <acronym><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Representational State Transfer\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Representational_State_Transfer\">REST<\/a><\/acronym>ful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called <acronym>Fethr<\/acronym> (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over <acronym>HTTP<\/acronym> Requests).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although this would need some traction to really get going. Look at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Instant messaging\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Instant_messaging\">Instant Messaging<\/a>. How long has it been a great tool for communication and still there is little to no interopability between the various systems. Only <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">Google<\/a> \/ GTalk and a few others have adopted <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol\">XMPP<\/a> so that there is the possibility of interopability. The big guys, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, AIM still haven&#8217;t bothered to interoparate much if at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=22867d67-8ca9-4069-9a3c-91b17fe46b79\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of this I dismissed it as I thought they were talking about the demise of email due to Twitter. That would be a ridiculous notion. However, after getting into the presentation further, (found here) I realized Daniel Sandler might be onto something. From the BirdFeeder website: Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[113,115,53,98,109,112,114,80,110,111],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aim","tag-birdfeeder","tag-google","tag-icq","tag-instant-messaging","tag-msn","tag-rest","tag-twitter","tag-xmpp","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}