Introduction

Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation of a RESTful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called Fethr (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over HTTP Requests).

Birdfeeder is part of a research project by Daniel Sandler at Rice University.

Curious? Contact dsandler@{twitter,email}.

Papers

Research papers about Fethr and Birdfeeder are in progress. You may be interested in the following related work:

• D. Sandler and D. S. Wallach. Casting votes in the Auditorium. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT’07), 2007. – PDF HTML
• D. Sandler. FeedTree: Scalable and prompt delivery for Web feeds. Master’s thesis, Rice University, 2007. – PDF