John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest events in the burgeoning App.net community, then explore the competing(?) Tent.io protocol for decentralized real-time social networking.

Links for this episode:

• Real-time computing - Wikipedia
  
• Paying Developers is A Bad Idea - Charlie Kindel
  
• Ball bearing - Wikipedia
  
• Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program - App.net
  
• Say Hello to Netbot - Tapbots Blog
  
• Netbot - Tapbots.com
  
• Protocols don't mean much - Dave Winer
  
• Tent - the decentralized social web
  
• Tent.is (alpha) - Simple Tent Hosting
  
• John's tent.io account - siracusa.tent.is
  
• As of 2011, what is the average number of followers for a Twitter user? - Quora
  
• Is a federated Twitter even possible? - Dan Wineman
  
• A response to Brennan Novak - Dalton Caldwell
  
• Hypercritical #37: A Story of Triumph
  
• Wedge - A Mac client for App.net
  

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