@liaizon OpenMicroBlogging was created for laconi.ca and only ever implemented by laconi.ca and a shortlived project OpenMicroBlogger that wanted to federate. Google and friends were not involved.
> When I first designed StatusNet in the Spring of 2008, there were no distributed social networking protocols. So, I made one up. OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) 0.1 [ . . . ]