Thanks to TIBCO’s Patrick Sapinski for some news on a CEP-driven Twitter application (albeit not public yet) that used location awareness principles to “tweet” people depending on where they were (e.g. passing a certain location). The Twitter side of the story was apparently the easy part. Patrick writes:

“We did not do any Java coding to accomplish this. We just used the TIBCO BusinessWorks HTTP activity to send tweets to Twitter. It was pretty easy once I configured the messages, URL, etc.”

Of course, for corporate applications / private tweets there are also services like Tibbr, which I signed up for this week… meanwhile I’m happy sticking with iGoogle to monitor “the real thing” via RSS feeds!

… apparently, judging by the all-male attendance at this week’s CEP Summer School near Oslo, Norway. That must mean a lot of quiche left for those still consumed by mere static data processing…

This morning saw the Introduction by co-host Prof Jacobsen (Univ of Toronto) and Smart (event-driven) Systems by Prof Chandy (CalTech). I see Mani Chandy has a new blog, covering smart, community-based sense-and-respond systems of the ilk he described this morning: community measurements of earthquake seismic data via cheap USB sensors exploiting everyone-has-internet access. This is a somewhat more believable version of “community CEP” than the “lets do CEP on Twitter events” mantra that recently did the rounds on CEP discussion boards - although of course the latter is fine as one of many news-gathering-sensors for those organizations needing to monitor, er, real-time news.