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Coding a Twitter killbot
j = Jabber::Simple.new(jid, pass) j.received_messages.each do |mesg| if mesg.body.match(/austin|sxsw/i) sender = mesg.elements['//screen_name'].text j.deliver('twitter@twitter.com', "leave #{sender}")...
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Crumbling Illusion of Phone Network Security
It’s been “big news” that Twitter and Jott are vulnerable to CallerID spoofing. Can’t speak for the Jott kids, but I know this isn’t news to Twitter kids, given that Blaine and Rabble were...
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Google Talk Architecture, and High Availability (HA)
Via the HA blog (an obviously unserved niche in retrospect), a very interesting 30 minute presentation on the Google Talk architecture. ConnectedUsers * BuddyListSize * OnlineStateChanges...
View ArticleSam Ruby: “just like the web encompasses both the human web and programmable...
This is exactly what we were getting at with Social Software for Robots http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/14/Long-Bets-Apologia
View ArticleXMPP in TiVo
“Today each TiVo polls TiVo’s severs roughly every 15 minutes to check for new scheduled recordings, TiVoCast downloads, Unbox downloads, etc. That’s highly inefficient – nearly all of those...
View ArticleNotes from Social Graph Foo
Here is my quick dump of the notebook, probably useful to no one but me. Names mostly removed to protect the guilty. I think “Social Graph” is kind of a dumb phrase to apply to the back question of...
View Article#hashbot
Learned a new word tonight from MattB, SimonB, and Yoz. A hashbot is a robot that hangs out on an IRC channel (hence the #) and provides a conversational interface to a resource. hashbots are the...
View ArticleWeeWar needs XMPP
WeeWar broke in a wave across the office this afternoon. (thankfully late afternoon, or I might have gotten nothing done today). Its a Web-based turn based strategy game, thats very well done. Sort of...
View ArticleBeyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
The slides from Rabble and my talk at OSCON 08. This was our XMPP outsiders look at how to hijack XMPP to solve the problems of RSS and polling at “quantum” and “relativistic” scales. (small and rare,...
View ArticleBill de hÓra: Non-Newtonian readings
“If you enjoyed Kellan Elliott-McCrea and Evan Henshaw-Plath’s presentation “Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP”, here’s a dose of links.” Excellent list....
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Is a Firehose of Snowflakes a Nor’easter?
I tried explaining the title of this blog post to Jasmine this morning. Suffice to say my explanation needed a bit of practice. And more than 140 characters. Or it might just be I’m a bit stir crazy...
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