Distributed Microblogging

Joe Cascio@joec0914

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Larger Issues

We’re in the Compuserve era of social media

Breaking down walled gardens

Whither the Twitter “scene”?

Can we retain the sense of community?

An Open Project

Get developers interested

Create a development ecosystem

Different implementations, same protocol

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Distributed Twitter Google Group

Berkman Thursday meeting June 5