MBC ’09, the world’s first Microblogging Conference, was recently held in Hamburg Germany. Organized by Cem Basman, the format of the conference was a hybrid of a barcamp and a normal conference. Topics discussed included the role of microblogging platforms in journalism, and the future of the medium. Sponsors include T-Mobile, Seesmic, Control Yourself, Inc., and Communardo. For those who were unable to attend, you can find photos and videos from the conference at the MBC09 website. Due to the overwhelming success of MBC09, a second conference is being planned for the end of the summer. Please visit the MBC09 website for more details, including sponsorship information.
Archive - January, 2009
Jaiku Goes Open Source
Recently, Google announced that Jaiku, the microblogging service acquired in 2007, will be ported to the Google App Engine, and its code will be open sourced. On the Google Code Blog, Vic Gundora, VP of Engineering, wrote: “With the open source Jaiku Engine project, organizations, groups and individuals will be able to roll-their-own microblogging services and deploy them on Google App Engine. The new Jaiku Engine will include support for OAuth, and we’re excited about developers using this proven code as a starting point in creating a freely available and federated, open source microblogging platform” There has been much interest in decentralized microblogging over the past year, due mostly to the work done by Evan Prodromou with his Laconi.ca software. In addition, there’s the OpenMicroblogging specification which allows different microblogging services to communitcate with each other. With Jaiku going open source, it is very likely that we could see a developer make it compatible with the OpenMicroblogging specification. Time will tell.
