Thanks to the organisers @inuda @jonmarkwell @markabaker @stewarttownsend and support of Sun MicroSystems as well as thanks to @YellowPark for live streaming  the event.

We will be presenting "the good, the bad and the ugly" of twitter from our perspective and experience as a third party twitter application developer.  

If you are at the event tonight please do come along and say hello or comment on the twitter backchannel or directly in the comments below. We will be demonstrating the new version Twitblogs that supports Twitter's OAuth and also our Twitter implementation with Facebook Connect, Google Connect etc via RPX. 

Event Schedule: (more details)

The full schedule for the evening is as follows:

• 18:00 Arrival networking, food & beer sponsored by Sun Startup Essentials
• 18:45 Welcome (@JonMarkwell) - inuda.com
• 18:50 Nick Halstead (@nickhalstead) - tweetmeme.com
• 19:10 Sam Sethi (@ssethi) - twitblogs.com ”The Good the Bad & The Ugly” 
• 19:30 Doug Williams (@dougw) - twitter.com - Twitter API Q&A
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• 20:00 Break - Networking
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• 20:25 Graeme Sutherland (@grasuth) - nodestone.com - “You Are a Neuron”
• 20:40 Show & Tell - Tell us something interesting in 140 seconds or less. Open participation, sign up on evening.
• 21:00 Close - Thank you - Move to The Monument pub, below the venue.

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I have tweeted Alex to see what their plans are so we are ready for Oauth launch.

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Link: Dare Obsanjo

UPDATE: I've been playing around with the APIs announced and it looks like there actually isn't an API to get your friends' status updates included in the announcement. The status.getmethod only returns the status updates posted by the currently user. The closest I could get was trying the query below via fql.query but it never returned results
SELECT uid, message FROM status WHERE uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=$userid)

So much for the claims that this is a Twitter killer.

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Link: Twitter Oauth Example
 
Pleased to say that Twitblogs is part of the beta program and will be implementing Oauth as soon as its allowed. 

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Andrew (CEO of Rummble) is spot on with his post. Google Latitude is just another service that will become ubiquitous and therefore certainly not something any aspiring CEO should think about building a startup business around.

Nearly two years ago I started talking about iPALS - identity, presence, attention, location, status 

In the future to help us manage this vast array of data that has overloaded us with information, I envisage us trusting online services where we share our identity, presence, attention, location and status - i.e iPALS in exchange for timely relevant information 

Vecosys -  20th April 2007

And now we are seeing much of this come about with the advent of technologies such as OpenID, XMPP/Jabber, Latitude and Twitter.

In a few months time I believe we will have sorted out the remaining kinks in the technologies like OpenID and begin the move to a XMPP/PubSub model.  

In the future I believe startups will focus on using these technologies to create new services that differentiate themselves from other companies. Rummble is a good example of a company doing just that, building value added services on top off social networking and location based mobile functionality in order to differentiate themselves.

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Link: TechDirt

Well, here's an interesting legal question brought about by modern technology. If a commenter on a blog "defames" the owner of that blog, and the blogger does not delete those comments, is it still defamation? 

According to a court in the UK, the answer is no. The court found that, since the blogger had the ability to moderate comments, leaving them up was a de facto consent to having the comments published. 

This is fascinating, as defamation law was originally targeted at publishers who used their publications to spread false claims about someone. Yet, today, with the internet and comment systems, the tables are turned somewhat. 

On the whole, I tend to agree with the ruling -- though, these days I'm fairly skeptical of most defamation suits. It's difficult to see how the guy suffered any "harm" since he left the supposedly damaging comments up when he had every means to delete them. 

Of course, you could flip that around -- and note that, in deleting those comments, you might only draw more attention to them, and so perhaps you could argue that leaving the comments as they are, and responding to them rather than deleting them, was your way of minimizing the "damage." 

Either way, it's yet another example of how modern technology sometimes doesn't mesh well with existing laws.

I wonder what the law is about defamatory comments on a publishers website that reference a third party?

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Link: Spanking Cats

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Link: SlideShare

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Link: Mashup

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Tonight I was reading about Ping.fm getting funding, GNIP adding more XMPP support to third party services. Even more exciting there is going to be an event in London about the move to the realtime web.

1) The Real-Time Web Will Become Critical for News and Information Discovery
Delayed news will no longer be acceptable for early adopters, who will gravitate to the quickest sources of news, wherever they may be. As tools like Twitter Search and FriendFeed real-time offer people to rapidly broadcast their updates, reactions and news with true immediacy, a segment of the population will adopt these real-time sources and favor them ahead of delayed or filtered engines, including RSS, and of course, edited mass media. At the same time, while many of us early adopters may be fairly noisy about this development, we will remain in the significant minority, even as the mainstream becomes more aware of these options.

Link: Predictions

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