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Gordian Knot in my head: XMPP, RSS, Microblogging & Social Streams

I just installed a Jabber server on one of my servers and played with a php class for XMPP to interact with it. The goal is to have some kind of tool to “speak” with a NoseRub server. Features like Twitter’s track for keywords come to my mind, but also for setting your location or various other things to come.

Then, I’m also thinking about how to integrate Identi.ca with NoseRub. There is some kind of protocol available and I hear XMPP a lot when talking about server-to-server communication and so I start thinking: is XMPP just a better/faster RSS? Should I route every single Social Stream of Identoo.com-Users through this new Jabber server and thus allow everyone to subscribe to it by adding it as friend?

Isn’t the Social Stream itself a micro blog? There are so many people pushing their blog updates and new photos from Flickr or elsewhere to their Twitter stream, that it almost is a Social Stream. So, when I add a Twitter user right now as contat on Identoo.com (this works perfectly), I am halfway there, when it comes to a decentralised Twitter. I could support Identi.ca right now, too. The only thing that is missing, are the notifications when someone added my as a contact. And of course, that I cannot add any RSS-Feed to Twitter.com or Identi.ca as a contact.

And this is the Goridan Knot: it is all weaved together, but I think it is very simple to solve. I just didn’t find the right sword to do it. Maybe allowing any URL as an endpoint is good enough + being able to autodiscover a XMPP stream instead of a RSS feed.

Still searching for the sword…