[zeromq-dev] An interesting use-case for EdgeNet : Asynchronous IRC?

crocket crockabiscuit at gmail.com
Wed Jan 1 06:07:09 CET 2014


How does async twitter work? Can you point me to the link?


On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Asych twitter is a good idea and will work well. I've seen it done.
> Another fun application is async push to talk.
>
> On Dec 31, 2013, at 9:32 PM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> May asynchronous twitter be more appropriate for my idea?
> Asynchronous twitter, asynchronous IRC, whatever.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> With asynchronous IRC software, you can choose your nickname and a topic.
>> You send messages that belong to a topic.
>> People who subscribed to that topic receive your message.
>> Or they might choose to receive messages from every topic.
>>
>> This becomes very interesting when population density goes up very high
>> in a small area.
>> Imagine that you went to comiket. Wikipedia says "Comiket (コミケット
>> Komiketto?), otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット Komikku
>> Māketto?), is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in
>> Tokyo, Japan."
>>
>> ~590,000 people attended comiket last summer. It basically looks like
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comiket77.jpg
>>
>> With hundreds of thousands of people in a small area, asynchronous IRC
>> becomes fun.
>> Not as fun as the near-synchronous one we have now, but still.
>>
>> I think asynchronous IRC may entice people to adopt EdgeNet starting from
>> big meetups.
>>
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