Unless @dewitt or others can correct or amend, I'm fairly confident that it's all right here:
• Atom buzz feed standard format.
• rssCloud to provide instantaneous RSS updates?
• MediaRSS for rich media elements, video, etc.
• Activity Streams encode social events in standard Atom or RSS feeds.
• PubSubHubbub pushes feeds in realtime to subscribers across the Web.
• Salmon notifies people of responses to their status updates.
• Webfinger makes it easy to find people across social sites.
• Portable Contacts a secure way to access address books and friend lists built up all over the web.
• OAuth to access server resources on
behalf resource owner and to authorize third-party access w/o sharing credentials.
• OStatus makes an easy-to-implement distributed social network.
• New! Google Buzz API official NASCAR sticker version.
• ForwardFuturetechture? Wave Federation Protocol is a new platform built around hosted conversations called waves. Released under a revolutionary license, anyone can build a wave server and interoperate, much like anyone can run their own SMTP server.
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Still Looking for the Definitive, Authoritative, Official Google Buzz API?
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Salmon is as Salmon Does
- Keep swimming upstream
- Engineer the openness of RSS everywhere
- Make Dave Winer proud
- Listen to Vint Cerf
- Pay Attention to Kevin Kelley
- Always touch base with Jaron Lanier
- Heed the wisdom of John Perry Barlow
++ Everything Else
- Tags:
- futuretechture
- buzz
- salmon
- Keep swimming upstream
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Buzz by Michael Silverton from Buzz
| Toward Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth: Version Eleventy-Seven Point Oh |
Louis Gray http://goo.gl/7pWc has once again alerted us this morning to the latest in the ongoing saga of foreseeable and avoidable communications industry insanity in the form of intentional bandwidth scarcity and pay-per-packet pilfering.
To avoid all this, some will recall that I began advocating that we should have done things right, from 1991.
However, it wasn't the typical idle banter insisting upon what they should do, as fills so many forums. Rather, we set forth upon a quixotic quest to build the first ETTH proof of concept and primed Silicon Valley to get it right in 2001.
We succeeded. However, neither the valley, nor that all-knowing, all-foreseeing invisible spirit medium known as the market were ready yet. Today, we must get it right for 2011.
What is it? It's about national communication grid robustness, redundancy, survivability in times of emergency, and plain old Keepin-up-with-Korea infrastructure competitiveness. It's still called Ethernet Everywhere, after all these years.
Why now? If all of your own reasons cited in LouisGraySpace and the previous paragraphs aren't enough, perhaps you would vote in favor of tens of thousands of dig and trench and wire and splice and tower and router config jobs.
A key, foundational component for Ethernet Everywhere is bit.ly/GoogleFiberhood
Therefore, if I am elected Google Fiberhood Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador not only will I champion Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf's Interplanetary Protocols to the ends of the known galaxies; I will simultaneously embark upon the complementary, full time good will mission here on earth, to save the interwebz from an unsustainably tragic fate where:
- SMS over Ethernet: $39/mo
- Email over Ethernet: $29/mo
- MMS over Ethernet: $29/mo
- Games over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Voice over Ethernet: $99/mo
- Video over Ethernet: $49/mo
- Salmon over Ethernet: available only in cans
It's all just Ethernet. Sure, packets can be prioritized for any of those purposes, but All Packets Are Created Equal. The manufacturing and transport costs of a packet don't suddenly go up after 50 million of them blink in and out of existence on a light wave or radio frequency; or 50 billion; or 500 trillion; or yes, a googol of 'em. There are no manufacturing or transport costs for bits or packets. There is only network congestion, and network congestion can always be fixed by smarter routing, additional capacity, or you got it: Monopoly Pricing.
So you see, if you are an incumbent monopolist or oligarch, congestion has always been your friend, because so long as you sit on your plant and don't do a thing, you can demonize your leading innovators, call them bandwidth hogs and cry about the next round of fixed costs that would require you to reinvest profits from us, the customers, into actually improving service offerings to meet ... wait for it ... explosive market demand.
Every packet carries bits. Bits that don't know or care whether they are images, text, games, voice, video, or tele-robotic surgery gestures.
If elected, I will advance the interdependent causes of:
- Universal FTTH
- With fon.com like sharing at every edge
- With solar powered WiMAX on N of every 10 street lamp posts, per R&R req's
- With green-wifi.org on the end of every transcontinental glass strand possible
I will advocate a return to the normalcy of Open Access, and preservation of Net Neutrality.
To the other side of the aisle: Do not even try to whine about costs this time, Wall Street. Are you kidding, Bailout Boy? No, last time, you punked us with "what would anyone ever do with all that bandwidth?" Well, let's see. Oh yeah, only everything; precisely as promised.
Today, after two decades of trial and error and finally learning what works, it is time to fulfill that promise.
Paid for by @silverton for Google's Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth Ambassador.
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Buzz Off
Alright. Enough of the Blip.FM Buzzmix Marathon ... g'night fellow buzz'tards. Maybe when we wake up in the morning, we'll find the Life's Meaning Fairy has left a Life for one of us, under the pillow.
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Envisioning decentralized @replies and notifications with WebFinger
Olympic Gold Medalist in the Global Cognition Grid Cluefactor Competition, @DeWitt Clinton -- in unprecedented open collaboration with one of the most amazing global teams ever self-selected and assembled -- is "Envisioning decentralized @replies and notifications with WebFinger."
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Google Eywa: What's Buzz Got To Do With It?
IMO, this buzz experiment is like a first, if awkward attempt, at enabling a fledgling global cognition grid to help us find our own true selves through all the amazing connections that we didn't even know we already had in place. There are always plenty of caveats to any upbeat Utopian perspective, of course; however, there are also plenty of problems with a perspective that insists that the current status quo is the best of all possible worlds.
If the panoptic Google Eywa stays entirely open to universal cross-checking and auditing by anyone, any time, there is an actual chance that we could engineer it so that it can't become evil and might even help us humans to become more authentically self-realized in the process.
I also propose that the GCG can and should become a Harry Potter-like Sorting Hat that filters us humans and configures us into research and project teams for maximum happiness and productivity in discovering and understanding the nature of our universe while enabling us to each explore and establish our most adaptive roles within it. Such ideas have been the subject of science fiction for decades; today, to borrow technoprogressive prose from the inimitable Dr. J, the tangible means for "a sexy, high-tech, radically democratic" participatory #futuretechture are clearly at hand. The GCG design-build decision is no longer a matter of whether we will be able to do so; but rather, whether or not We Will To Do So.
Back in the present tense, this means that we should be able to have a fairly high degree of confidence in the fact that if Google Eywa (well, an optimally configured Buzz recommendation engine, for now) lets someone through to participate in our thought-stream, it's probably a fairly benign, or even potentially really helpful entity. This is not yet the case and is a fundamentally crucial design criteria.
Parenthetical Inset: I'd love to read many more essays from many more perspectives on implications for such a scenario. Feel free to write them, or if already written, simply point to your work in the comments here. I know that's a practice frowned upon in today's concept of The Bogged Down Blog; however, this site is not about creating another pop culture blog comment repository; it's about learning how to figure out the UFIS concept.
Why does all this interest me? You'd have to scan this entire stream and web site for the full answer, but one simple reason is that I believe in the work over at SIAI and I am increasingly convinced that only the right Source Code Design and Audit Processes in the eventual AGI can save us from our individual and collective lesser, suboptimal ourselves.
Finally, it certainly seems that this post -- which I will continue to reflect as far and wide as possible, to eliminate FUD -- provides grounds for more than a little positive trans-cortical uplift. -
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Hacking The Buzz Stream with Bundles
If you can read this in Buzz, I managed to use a Bundle as a wrapper to sneak my Sweetcron stream into the Buzz. Now, to find a way to do it the other way around -- Buzz -> Sweetcron -- to demonstrate at least some modicum of full user-directed portability, WITHOUT DUPES!
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