Integrating laconi.ca to SMOB
Gautier (aka lespetitescases) just hacked his SMOB client to make it post on identi.ca as well as on twitter. He’s using the new laconica API combined with the same method that SMOB uses at the moment to post on twitter (CURL + HTTP-Auth). As this feature was on the TODO list and some people were asking for it (a thread was also started by John recently on both SIOC and identi.ca mailing-lists) that was a really great news !
I just added those changes to the SMOB client (get it or update from svn) , so that it can now be used to post on identi.ca ! Moreover, I added the ability to post not only on identi.ca but on any laconi.ca based microblogging platform. You’ll see news parameter in the config_dist.php file, that let you set-up a list of servers with dedicated user / pass, as follows. Then, when publishing an update, you’ll be able to choose those servers as well as the previous ones (including twitter), and enjoy multiple-posting:
Then it’s browsable everywhere, but you still own it locally as RDF data so that you can re-use it later, etc.
Once again, merci Gautier !
Tags: identi.ca, laconi.ca, lespetitescases, microblogging, sioc, smob
SMOB en français
Un de mes tort sur ce blog est sans doute de ne pas publier assez en français. Heureusement certains s’en chargent, et plutôt bien. Voila donc 2 billets au sujet de SMOB, un premier par (l’inévitable 
) Gautier, et un second de Nicolas accompagné d’un excellent screencast. D’autre part, sur l’initiative de Got et avec l’appui d’Eric, un serveur a été mis en place sur smob.websemantique.org. Plus d’excuse pour ne pas l’utiliser !
Au niveau de SMOB lui-même, pas eu trop le temps de coder récemment, mais les choses devraient s’accélérer courant Juin (j’ai donc bien lu ton billet). En attendant, je le présenterai lundi prochain à SFSW, avec un programme toujours aussi intéressant pour ceux qui veulent des exemples d’applications concrètes du WS. Quand à la conférence principale, elle s’annonce riche en événements et présentations de qualité. Et pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur le programme, il est bien sur disponible en RDF… à vos requêtes !
SIOC-based microblogging
As John Breslin already detailed last week, we (Tuukka Hastrup, Uldis Bojars, John and myself) recently work on SMOB, a semantic microblogging architecture, that will be presented at next SFSW workshop, co-located with ESWC in Tenerife.
While there have been a lot of buzz recently regarding ways to provide open alternatives to Twitter, then fun thing is that we worked on this in last January while I visited DERI. Our main goal was to show how Semantic Web technologies could provide an open-platform for such way of publishing content, mainly using FOAF and SIOC. Moreover, one of our aim was also to demonstrate how such technologies can provide users a way to control, share and remix their data as they want, not depending on a third-party service, a goal also shared by the dataportability project. In that way, SMOB-published data really belongs to the user that wrote it. Indeed, while SMOB servers (which display a faceted view of agregated posts as you can see on the demo server) store data in their local triple-store, this information (i.e. each update) is hosted on the client side and available in RDF.
At the moment, the complete updates dataset is public, and can be browsed with any RDF browser as the picture below shows (with Tabulator) but we plan to introduce more advanced authentication and privacy issues, in which OpenID could have a role to play.
Users can parse it as any RDF data, mash-it up with other information, eg their FOAF profile (SMOB allows to re-use existing FOAF profile as the foaf:maker of each update), or any other RDF data. And most important, if a SMOB server closes, they still own their data.
Moreover, since SMOB content is SIOC-based, it becomes part of the SIOC-o-sphere, and could be merged with your other social media contributions (from any SIOC application) and discovered thanks to recent APIs and WordPress plug-in introduced by Sindice (automatic PTSW / Sindice pings will be soon in the code repository). This is one more advantage of getting a common semantics to model your data wherever they come from.
Finally, we just introduced in SMOB a way to publish not only to a dedicated server, but also to Twitter. So that you’ll get a real-time, self-hosted and long-life archive of your twits in RDF. Isn’t that cool ?
Tags: dataportability, microblogging, sioc, smob, twitter
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