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Re: Twitter and Iran Elections

From: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:45:47 +0100
Message-ID: <4A38D76B.4060506@champin.net>
To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
CC: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Karl Dubost a écrit :
> 
> Le 16 juin 2009 à 14:46, Harry Halpin a écrit :
>> I'm sure everyone has now heard about the roll Twitter is playing in
> 
> s/Twitter/$coolAppOfTheMoment/

+1 :)

> Le 16 juin 2009 à 14:57, Alex Korth a écrit :
>> Opera Unite [2], i.e. hosted by the users themselves. Opera Unite
>> based Microblogging, hey that's cool! ;)
> 
> You just have to block unite.opera.com domain for shutting down
> everything. Not really distributed.

right, but at least people would still have their content untouched, and
could publish them again using another medium.

So I think Opera Unite makes a difference, even though I agree with you
that its dependance on unite.opera.com is a bit understated in the buzz
around it.

>> I'm told the concept of "re-tweet" (well, re-dent) will be in a future
>> identica/laconica release. This should make it easier to
>> programmatically retrace the sourcing of microblog'd comment...
> 
> which can be an issue, because identi.ca is centralized for now.
> My wish is that laconi.ca would be easily installable on each machine
> and could communicate with each other (maybe through dynamic dns) with
> caching messages for later.

and the same for Opera Unite would be great as well :)

  pa
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