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Microblogging is about to go Supernova

By Tac Anderson ⋅ March 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment
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Two new developments this week are the precursors to potentially huge developments. Laconi.ca and Jaiku are two other microblogging platforms. The big difference is that they are both open source. Laconi.ca has always been open source. Jaiku was an early competitor to Twitter which got bought by Google and then promptly shut down. They have now opened up Jaiku as an open source project.

You can read mre about developments with Laconi.ca here and more about Jaiku here.

So why is Tac geeking out over this. Well, if you remember not so many days ago I made the claim that

5 years from now the non-early adopters will be using dozens of services built on top of Twitter and they won’t even realize it

Laconi.ca and Jaiku give developers an even greater abilty to further microbloggings functionality into additional apps.

One of the keys to this (I think) will be developers tapping into Twitter’s API so that #hashtags, @replies and other common protocal translate well across services.

Everything from Web chat, sentiment engines, polling applications etc, etc, could be build on Twitter (and other microblogging tools) without ever having to interact with Twitter itself.

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  • Mat Diablo

    True, True, True. The statement in bold sums the future of this platform up quite nicely. I think 5 years might even be generous.

    How many of us “early adopters” interact with twitter directly even at this point? I have one app for data and info mining/monitoring, another for aggregating and filtering based on priority/interest, and thats not even to taking into account iphone/smartphone apps for on the go use.

    just considering the possibilities makes new launches like @wefollow look dated in comparison, eh? Not useless…just dated.

    Good stuff, Tac. as usual.

  • Mat Diablo

    True, True, True. The statement in bold sums the future of this platform up quite nicely. I think 5 years might even be generous.

    How many of us “early adopters” interact with twitter directly even at this point? I have one app for data and info mining/monitoring, another for aggregating and filtering based on priority/interest, and thats not even to taking into account iphone/smartphone apps for on the go use.

    just considering the possibilities makes new launches like @wefollow look dated in comparison, eh? Not useless…just dated.

    Good stuff, Tac. as usual.

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    5 yrs from now is optomistic. By that I just mean it will be so main stream we won’t even think about it. Kind of like we don’t question that Twitter was built on the Web. Messaging services will be built on Twitter and other microblogging tools.

  • http://www.newcommbiz.com Tac

    5 yrs from now is optomistic. By that I just mean it will be so main stream we won’t even think about it. Kind of like we don’t question that Twitter was built on the Web. Messaging services will be built on Twitter and other microblogging tools.

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