We've been quietly working away on buddycloud.
Now we're looking for feedback on our very very alpha version of the
web-client at http://buddycloud.com and also get ideas on what to work
on next?
The website and mobile clients are built atop XMPP where users can log
in an participate in their own channels
(http://buddycloud.com/user/buddycloud.com/simon), friends channels, or
topic channels (http://buddycloud.com/channel/football) and share
location in a meaningful way ("I'm at home").
The basics of buddycloud are channels and location:
buddycloud channels are built atop pub-sub and let you bring your own
jid to the party. A channel is somewhere between Twitter posts and IRC
conversation. The distinction depends on the particular channel and the
moderation team running it. Originally buddycloud channels were built on
MUC, then we tried using PEP. After much client and backend reworking,
we've settled on pub-sub as a much more flexible and robust solution.
Using pub-sub also works better for mobile users who need a
low-overhead re-sync when they come back online.
Location (think "I'm in East London, UK") and place (think "I'm at home
sweet home") sharing are done using bookmarks of surrounding WiFi,
cell-id pattern or GPS coordinates (we're not really fans of the
check-in madness and you don't need to become a mayor of anything).
Location uses XEP-0255 and XEP-0080. We're also working with the W3C's
location sharing and still keen to push the
http://oslo-protocol.googlecode.com for federated location sharing.
We continue to believe that many social networks should exist and
federate with each other using open protocols like XMPP or the work of
the Ostatus team. Users should own their identity and content and
control their own privacy. We've tried to buidl buddycloud along these
lines and we are participating in the Ostatus summit to see how we can
make this happen for the non-XMPP world too. This is our rough idea of
how things should work; I'm sure that there are some good jdev minds
that might want to add to this.
We think our next step is to enable any XMPP server operator can run
their own channels and location components and to finish up the Android
and the iPhone clients (also all XMPP transport). The Nokia client is
shipped.
All code is opensource and we are keen for more participants to join us:
- web-clients, widgets and the mobile clients are all on
http://buddycloud.googlecode.com.
- Smack for Android improvements are hosted on http://asmack.googlecode.com
We are also looking for help, especially as we add more web
functionality. The next less-fugly version looks like this:
http://m.buddycloud.com/tmp/proofs/20100702-web-channels-ng-outline.png
and should be out in the coming weeks. If you'd like to join in or
just watch progress we hang out in MUC: [email protected]
To quickly summarise what turned out to be a much longer email, please
share how you think federated social networking built atop XMPP *should*
look and what you would like to see as a next step.
S.
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Simon Tennant
mobile: +49 17 8545 0880
office: +44 20 7043 6756
office: +49 89 4209 55854
channel:http://buddycloud.com/user/buddycloud.com/simon
xmpp:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
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