Archive for the 'microblogging' Category


today: radio talk on openmicroblogging (in german)

Today I’ll be giving an interview to radio fsk, hamburg. The topic is about twitter and openmicroblogging. They’ll have Cem Basman from WhisperN News and Media (brokerz) at face and I’ll join later on to talk about the role of XMPP in the field of openmicroblogging. The live broadcast calls itself Nerdalert and will start [...]

twitterspy - a jabber/xmpp gateway to twitter

Today I decided to give twitterspy a try in order to get rid of a dedicated twitter client that wastes space and resources on my desktop.
Twitterspy is a jabber bot that sits in your roster and forwards messages to twitter back and forth.
As it’s still missing some helpful documentation on howto setup such a [...]

Open-Birdcage Project

As my last post on XMPP and microblogging has gathered lots of attention I thought it might be a good idea to establish a place for collecting all of the informations on the topic and coordinate further steps. Thus I’ve setup a trac environment at http://open-birdcage.com. I’ve already started linking articles and insightful discussions related [...]