OpenMicroBlogging is a deprecated communication protocol that allows different microblogging services to interoperate with each other. It lets the user of one service subscribe to statuses from a user of another service. This enables the creation of a federation of new communities,Stay, Jesse (2008-8-12) Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities. Retrieved 2009-1-4. as an individual or organization of any size can host a service that supports the protocol. OpenMicroBlogging utilizes the OAuth and Yadis protocols and does not depend on any central authority.
OpenMicroBlogging has been superseded by an enhanced version of it, OStatus.
History
The original implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the Laconica software, which changed its name to StatusNet in August 2009.Laconica is now StatusNet Identi.ca is the first service to support OpenMicroBlogging,Mayfield, Ross (2008-7-2) Identica launches, an open source Twitter. Retrieved 2009-1-5. and other sizeable services including Leo Laporte's Twit Army were amongst those powered by the open source software.Malcolm Bastien, There's Twitter the company, and twitter the medium. Retrieved 2009-3-24.
Since March 2009, one can search users' accounts in TWiT Army from within Identi.ca. You could also subscribe to accounts at TWiT Army from your Identi.ca account.
A third-party implementation of the OpenMicroBlogging protocol is the OpenMicroBlogger software. See also ActivityPub Comparison of microblogging services Decentralized social network OStatus
External links
Implementations: OpenMicroBlogger StatusNet (formerly)
Services List of Independent StatusNet Instances List of OpenMicroBlogger installations
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