Seesmic's Video Firehose Now Available via Gnip
We are very excited to announce that you can now get the realtime Seesmic updates via Gnip as our video firehose is available. Our friends at Gnip just announced it too. Gnip is a great way of distributing our data along with many other services and some developers have already started integrating our videos, such as Storytlr. 
Sending events over XMPP literally pushes the data to the community and their applications. The "firehose" feed we're announcing is just a small piece of what we're doing, and we're very excited to give Gnip, Notifixio.us, Stanziq, Zac Bowling's Facebook App as well as pushing our users videos to YouTube if they like and the community as a whole access. You'll be able to use their services and APIs for our timeline in addition to being able to access our XMPP feeds directly. We have contracted with the Tigase team to develop XMPP Publish-Subscribe extensions on their free XMPP server for our own use, and to help the community work with us on the social web-use case of XMPP. We need to work together as a community to solve the problem of data portability, and we believe that XMPP is part of the solution.
This isn't *just* some firehose we're strapping on to the outside of our system. We use XMPP and XMPP Publish-Subscribe extensions internally for eventing, including pushing the events all the way to our end users' web clients. This isn't just some feature that we're adding to the service, this is a way of thinking for Seesmic's platform going forward. You can expect more features and APIs that leverage XMPP's roots as an IM protocol, features that push the boundaries of social web platform beyond webpages. When Seesmic says that we're using XMPP, we mean that we're harnessing XMPP to it's full potential to create a service that reaches out to our users and our developer community.
See also our Seesmic API, the list of applications integrating Seesmic (please update the wiki if yours is missing) and some details about our XMPP PubSub platform. Thanks Johann, Marco, Mike and Nathan for helping me write this post :)
Sending events over XMPP literally pushes the data to the community and their applications. The "firehose" feed we're announcing is just a small piece of what we're doing, and we're very excited to give Gnip, Notifixio.us, Stanziq, Zac Bowling's Facebook App as well as pushing our users videos to YouTube if they like and the community as a whole access. You'll be able to use their services and APIs for our timeline in addition to being able to access our XMPP feeds directly. We have contracted with the Tigase team to develop XMPP Publish-Subscribe extensions on their free XMPP server for our own use, and to help the community work with us on the social web-use case of XMPP. We need to work together as a community to solve the problem of data portability, and we believe that XMPP is part of the solution.
This isn't *just* some firehose we're strapping on to the outside of our system. We use XMPP and XMPP Publish-Subscribe extensions internally for eventing, including pushing the events all the way to our end users' web clients. This isn't just some feature that we're adding to the service, this is a way of thinking for Seesmic's platform going forward. You can expect more features and APIs that leverage XMPP's roots as an IM protocol, features that push the boundaries of social web platform beyond webpages. When Seesmic says that we're using XMPP, we mean that we're harnessing XMPP to it's full potential to create a service that reaches out to our users and our developer community.
See also our Seesmic API, the list of applications integrating Seesmic (please update the wiki if yours is missing) and some details about our XMPP PubSub platform. Thanks Johann, Marco, Mike and Nathan for helping me write this post :)
