— Semantic Microblogging

SMOB is a distributed / decentralised microblogging system built on RDF and Semantic Web technologies, mainly SIOC and FOAF. Currently, we have simple prototypes of a publishing and an aggregating service, less than 100 lines of PHP code each.

• Example: a public aggregator
• Example: an anonymous publishing service
• Example: a community microplanet
• Resources for developers

SMOB client - a personal microblog publishing service

The SMOB client enables you to publish your microblog postings. It provides a web interface for entering new postings, stores the postings, and lets the aggregators of your choice know of each new posting.

The SMOB client complements the SMOB server, which lets you set up your own microblog aggregators.

For more about the client prototype, see installation instructions.

SMOB server - a microblog aggregating service

The SMOB server enables you to aggregate microblog postings for yourself or for a community. It receives notifications of new postings from microblog publishing services, keeps an up-to-date collection of the postings, and allows readers to browse the postings.

The SMOB server complements the SMOB client, which lets you set up a personal microblog publishing service.

For more about the server prototype, see installation instructions.

More information

• John's blog post
• Research paper at SFSW2008 (pdf)
• Research poster (pdf)