So does anyone here have a working NoseRub instance? - Ken Sheppardson

I could put one up. What would you have in mind for it? - Jason Wehmhoener

Sounds like identoo.com is the "identica" of noserub - Jason Wehmhoener

Yeah, I've had an account there forever, although I never got around to adding any services :-/ http://identoo.com/kshep Just wondering whether it's out there in the wild anywhere and what sort of experiences folks have had with it. - Ken Sheppardson

I just downloaded the zip. Looks like a pretty straightforward standard CakePHP app. You could make changes to Noserub so that it looked/worked more like Friendfeed, but those changes might be overwritten by any updates to the Noserub core. I don't see a clean separation of "themes" or "plugins". I wrote to the lead developer with some questions along those lines, we'll see what he says. - Jason Wehmhoener

Just exchanged some emails with Dirk, encouraged him to show up here and chat with us for a bit. - Jason Wehmhoener

I have Noserub installation now running on my own dev server. It looks interesting. To bad the Noserub documentation is very limited. But so far I'm impressed. - arjo

NoseRub claims to be a protocol rather then an implementation. I would love to see that protocol. Unfortunately I can't find it anywhere. - arjo

@ Dirk Olbertz, thanks for the reply. That would definitely help. I myself am especially interested in how different noserub servers communicate, what protocol you use and how fast it is. - arjo

BTW, Friendfeed uses OAuth in v2 of the api, so you don't need an API key, you just need shared secrets. You register your app here: http://friendfeed.com/api... more docs here http://friendfeed.com/api... and an open source reference app is here http://code.google.com/p... which you can see a demo in action here http://friendfeed-api.appspot.com/ Friendfeed has one of the best examples of an open, documented, rich API that I'm aware of. - Jason Wehmhoener