It’s a big jump to go from only thinking about Twitter, to all of a sudden thinking about your own domain name, sending replies between independent web sites perhaps, to thinking about a timeline that is based on feeds from all over the web. Everyone is so used to Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, that in a way we have to outline the IndieWeb and services like Micro.blog in a way that mainstream users of other social networks can relate to. And as I mentioned yesterday, Tom Brown, who is also helping me out with IndieWebCamp planning… He gave a talk on the IndieWeb.Īnd listening to questions from the audience, it was just so obvious how far we have to go. There was a great talk on metaprogramming - really enjoyed it. Last night, I attended AustinRB, a local meetup here in Austin for Ruby programmers. I’ve been thinking about how much work we have to do to reach the audience of potential indie microbloggers. That’s what’s happening with MarsEdit and Micro.blog, although on a much smaller scale. And that’s what’s happening with apps that are built with some compatibility in mind, especially on IndieWeb standards. You should be able to use multiple apps to post to different services. We are so used to these silos and these apps that are not compatible with anything, that we just accept it. How could that possibly work? Why would Twitter or Facebook ever allow something like that?īut that’s how it should work. And instead of going to Twitter, it goes to Facebook. You open Twitter, you click new tweet, and then you click in the destination (somewhere in the UI), and you select Facebook instead. Imagine if you could use the official Twitter app to post to Facebook.
#MARSEDIT SWITCH BLOG MAC#
You should be able to use Micro.blog - the Mac app or the iOS app - to post to that same blog. You should be able to use MarsEdit to post to your blog. You should be able to switch between apps without changing everything.
#MARSEDIT SWITCH BLOG UPGRADE#
And MarsEdit is full-featured and has more features that you might want to upgrade to, even if you’re using Micro.blog.Īnd this is how I think software should work, and why the open web and open APIs are important. But it’s also a nice complement, because you can use MarsEdit to post to blogs that are hosted on Micro.blog.
The Mac version of Micro.blog kind of competes with MarsEdit, since you can use Micro.blog to post to WordPress, just like you can with MarsEdit. It’s great to see it come out, and we’ll be talking more about this on my other podcast Core Intuition later this week.Įven if Daniel wasn’t my friend and co-host of Core Intuition, I’d still be excited about MarsEdit, because more blogging software is a good thing. I posted to my blog with a link to the new version, and I included some comments in the blog post about using MarsEdit with Micro.blog.Ĭongrats to Daniel.
It’s a short episode about the MarsEdit 4 release and why even competing apps should be compatible and embrace the open web.
Today I posted another episode of my daily podcast Timetable.
#MARSEDIT SWITCH BLOG ARCHIVE#
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