Sylvain WallezIrregular musings of a busy geekTwitter, Identi.ca and microblogging architecture- July 10, 2008 As many people, I was annoyed by the scaling issues of Twitter (and especially loosing the IM integration), so I gave identi.ca a try. Russell Beattie did it as well, but also played with the opensource code that powers identi.ca, and found some very basic scalability issues. The comments are worth a read: should a microblogging service be considered as a messaging system like SMTP or Jabber, or as a content management tool like blogs. Each approach has its pros and cons. The messaging...http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-07/10-57-20.html |