Over the last few weeks the armchair communication developers of the world have been solving the woes of the Twitter infrastructure and communication problems. And out of all this advice Plurk has come to light.
Plurk is interesting, it’s primarily focus is a social networking message service, with a true microblogging conversation, video or image sharing on a timeline.
So in a way it’s an extension of Twitter, but a little like Pownce. It allows you to group your friends into cliques and define posts to be personal (one to one), public or just to the members of a clique. bit like the private feed in Twitter.
I have been watching OAuth and OpenID develop over time, wishing and hoping they would both take root and bloom into something wonderful. Now I think the concepts and ideas behind these two, especially OAuth is a wonderful Idea. What is OAuth (to refresh your memory):
OAuth gives users access to their data while protecting their account credentials via the use of an open protocol of a secure authenticating API.
But then we come to reality. Although a good number of you are not going to agree with me it has to be stated. There is a steady ground swell of apathy that is leading to a number of major problems with web interconnectivity.
Lots of talk of late on Government 2.0, good friend Nick Cowie has a blog searching for examples of it, Stephen Collins is trying to rile it up, Matthew Hodgson muses over it and John Allsopp wonders if the future is now for some, there are blog posts all over the shop, lots of conference sessions even.
Now the Federal agency – Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a paper on the top six trends in technology, applications and services trends for the next five to 10 years. Now they suggest that Social Networking Sites (the core of Gov 2.0) :
No I have not fallen of the face of the earth. It’s just been a little busy of late. Hence no blogging for the last few weeks, sorry about that, but these things do happen from time to time. It’s never been about lack of topics, more the lack of time.
Mind you during this time I have been able to reflect on various things. One of which is the future direction of online social networking.
