OStatus bridges for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+

hi all! i've been working on bridge libraries and apps for OStatus for
the major social networks that don't implement it themselves:
Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. i've finished webfinger,
portablecontacts, activitystreams, and salmon, and i'm currently
working on ostatus (and pubsubhubbub). details below. feedback and
pull requests are welcome!

the motivation for this follows a tweaked version of the IndieWeb
philosophy: i'm all for owning my own content on the web, but i also
accept that the majors are here to stay, and i don't expect them to
federate any time soon. given that, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
specifically, i've been posting to my own site and *syndicating links*
to the majors for years now.

this works ok, but it's no substitute for federation. i still have to
syndicate manually, comments and other interactions can't flow back
and forth, etc. that's no fun. so, i started coding implementations of
the ostatus protocols using their APIs.

here are details:

http://snarfed.org/2011-07-27_facebook_app_for_ostatus
http://snarfed.org/2012-01-16_webfinger_for_facebook_and_twitter
http://snarfed.org/2012-02-22_portablecontacts_for_facebook_and_twitter
http://snarfed.org/2012-03-12_activitystreams_for_facebook_and_twitter
http://snarfed.org/2012-07-14_salmon_for_facebook_twitter_and_google_plus

and here's the code:

https://github.com/snarfed/webfinger-unofficial
https://github.com/snarfed/portablecontacts-unofficial
https://github.com/snarfed/activitystreams-unofficial
https://github.com/snarfed/salmon-unofficial

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Received on Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:31:55 UTC