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OpenMicroBlogger is a multi-user messaging application that works like Twitter, and it's exciting (2000 downloads and counting) because it's one of the available implementations of the new Openmicroblogging protocol. It's a flexible communications tool that supports community by giving people control over their message stream, and it allows them to stay in touch from their mobile phone, laptop or desktop computer. The social-networking-style "I friend you and you friend me" feature makes it spam-resistant, and it is easy to install on any standard Web server.
First of all: Microblogging. How is that going to help you?
- Intranet/Extranet: Greases the wheels of communication by allowing some electronic communications to happen "out in the open" where everyone can hear (think blogging)
- Everybody decides who they want to "Follow"
- Forums: Microblogging makes forums better because participants can pick and choose who to add to their own stream. (Open) Microblogging takes that one step further, lets people "follow" people at many different Web sites, and choose any service for their "home base".
- SMS/Mobile: OpenMicroBlogger has a simple config setting to enable Zeep Mobile's ad-supported SMS gateway.
OpenMicroBlogger features:
- Communications: Choose any person you are following and forward their notices to your mobile or e-mail with a simple checkbox.
- Tags: not #hashtags but standard blog-style category/tags
- Uploads: it's a simple config setting to host files in the cloud (Amazon Web services)
- Broadcast: Post to Twitter, Identica and all of your OMB followers at identi.ca, army.twit.tv or elsewhere.
- Apps: Just a few so far, but our OpenAppStore is actually on-line. We want to have the best platform and putting money in the pockets of designers, plug-in authors, scripters and programmers just makes sense. http://openappstore.com
- Privacy: Despite its lightweight design, features a sophisticated, granular security model which we will use to power rooms, direct messages and other features in the near future.
- IDE: IDE? We publish a simple, graphical database-development utility, it can be used to generate a complete jQuery/MVC app for OpenMicroBlogger. (which you can turn around and sell for $$ on OpenAppStore) http://codestylist.com
- Aggregate: (coming soon) Our new aggregated feed lets you see your Twitter friends' updates. We'll be expanding this to work with any RSS feed.
- XMPP: (coming soon) We're still in wait-and-see mode while we come up with a stable/simple architecture.
- Uses a clone of the WordPress theme API to make itself skinnable
- Web services API instead of a WordPress back-end.
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