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The Twitter House That Jack (and Evan) Built May Be Taken Over By… Everyone

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There’s been a lot of movement in the last week or so in the field of micro-blogging, from discussions about searching on Twitter, the fund raising of both TweetDeck (an Adobe Air based client) and Indenti.ca (an open source micro-blogging platform that mirrors Twitter’s functionality). All of this is built on the principles of Twitter – an API that everyone can interact with is the main reason this has been possible – but there’s more and more movement away from the central Twitter service to having clients that talk to just the database from your computer, or that build up

Independent Tools are the Keys to the Web

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Dave Winer’s posts on using his experiment with Twitter as the basis of a ‘personal Friend Feed’ is an intriguing concept. In short, you grab the RSS feeds of your friends blogs, squish them together, and push that to a Twitter channel (Winer is using FriendsOfDave) to get a little push style feed of your friends content. While you could probably replicate this using a number of online services, I think the beauty of this is that it belongs to Winer – or to anyone who uses this concept, as I fully expect the source code to be released at