Buzz on Bruno Pedro

Drinking from the firehose

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:22:27 +0000

Some firehoses to ~~drink~~ read from, other than twitter’s:

Google Buzz, through their activity firehose API methods;
FriendFeed, using their real-time updates methods.

While the first works via pubsubhubhub, the second uses a combination of long polling and a cursor that helps you make subsequent calls.

More on the @replies subject

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:35:56 +0000

I just stumbled on a Buzz by DeWitt Clinton about a possible solution to the use of decentralized @replies. From the Buzz:

I want to throw some ideas out there about how it can someday be done in a decentralized fashion using open technologies such as WebFinger, Portable Contacts, AtomPub, and Activity Streams. (And maybe Salmon. Read on.)

The proposal would let you address any user of any application in a complete decentralized way.

On the use of the @ syntax by Google Buzz

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:37:58 +0000

Just a quick note to archive the way Google Buzz is using the @ syntax. From “Google Buzz Tips”:

If you’d like to send a private message to someone, type @ and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to find the email address of your contact.

In practice, you address other users by typing an @ symbol followed by their e-mail address, like @user@example.com. This is exactly what I proposed a while ago as an easy way to address any user on any Web application: