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Identi.ca: How free software can drive a social networking revolution
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| Social networking, micro-blogging and other such buzzwords abound across web
| development these days, and the “public” is a fickle as ever. The darling of
| the media-driven, web-based section of the public is dropped as soon as it
| gets popular or as soon as somebody figures out a way to make money out of it
| — money usually involves advertising, which usually ends up bombarding users
| with spurious post-mercials. How can free software make an impact in such an
| environment? Enter Identi.ca
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/identica_how_free_software_can_drive_social_networking_revolution
Recent:
New FSF microblogging communities New FSF microblogging communities
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| identi.ca distributes the source code used to power the site under the Affero
| GNU General Public License, and is following the free network service
| principles that the autonomo.us working group has been developing.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-identica-groups
Seneca College gets $50,000 grant to work on Eclipse WTP
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| Computer science students will get to contribute code to the open source
| Eclipse Web Tools Platform project. Why the open source approach recalls
| academia of days gone by
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http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/535f19fd-095e-4143-90ae-8a990bb67de5.html
Identi.ca Gets Funding to Make Open-source Twitter Variant
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| Identi.ca’s plans to build an open-source alternative to Twitter got a vote
| of confidence this week with an investment from the VCs at Montreal Start Up.
| While the amount of the financing wasn’t disclosed, Montreal Start Up
| Managing Partner John Stokes said the firm invests between C$150,000
| ($120,135) and C$400,000 ($320,329) per deal.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/01/14/identica-gets-funding-to-make-open-source-twitter-variant/
Source Code For Twitter-Like App, Trillr, Now Available
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| Developers of Trillr, a microblogging project similar to Twitter, announced
| this week that its source code is now available to anyone who wants it. The
| idea for Trillr was conceived in 2007 as a peer group experiment among team
| members who wanted to learn more about Python and Django, and was created as
| an enterprise tool with enhanced features like group discussion and a user
| directory.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/source-code-for-twitter-like-app-trillr-now-available
Vietnamese Twitter-clone Saigonica violates AGPL
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| There is a new Twitter-clone in Vietnam called Saigonica. It is based on the
| open source micro-blogging tool called Laconica, currently one of the most
| popular Twitter-clones. It is nice to see the Vietnamese technology
| community embracing open source software. Their contribution to the open
| source community will be very valuable in the upcoming years. The Vietnamese
| localization of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and OpenOffice are some clear examples of
| their contributions so far. Their contributions demonstrates a willingness
| to give back to the open source community and keeping the open source
| software free.
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| Unfortunately, Saigonica does not seem willing to give back to the open
| source community.
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http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2008/12/13/saigonica-violates-agpl/
identi.ca creator Evan Prodromou explains why he's taking on Twitter (video)
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| Bzzz.... bzzz...... bzzz...... That's not the sound of bees. It's the buzz
| surrounding new, open source Twitter competitor identi.ca. Creator Evan
| Prodromou sat down at OSCON in front of Linux.com's video camera and
| explained what identi.ca is all about and why it's suddenly such a hot item
| that he's been meeting with multiple venture capitalists -- and can be
| cavalier enough about those meetings that he canceled one to work on some
| code bugs that were bothering him instead.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142676
Identi.ca Launches, an Open Source Twitter
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| Evan Prodromou, one of the better citizens of the wiki community and founder
| of WikiTravel, launched Identi.ca today. Its a Twitter clone that is also
| distributed as Open Source licensed software.
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http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2008/07/identica-launch.html
Laconica: Can Open Source Save Twitter?
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| Lots of people are addicted to microblogging service Twitter - including
| substantial chunks of some open source communities. There are a fair number
| of Ruby on Rails developers twittering these days, for example. But Twitter's
| scaling and reliability issues lately have many people wondering whether it's
| time to look for an alternative. Identi.ca, backed by open source package
| Laconica, wants to be that alternative.
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http://ostatic.com/167237-blog/laconica-can-open-source-save-twitter
Could An Open Source "Twittersphere" Save Twitter? Or Kill It?
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| Is Twitter too important to be left in the hands of Twitter? That's the
| argument that bubbled up over the weekend. The argument is that Twitter is
| not distributed. This means that if Twitter goes down no one can Twitter. It
| also means if Twitter goes out of business, or just screws up, we could lose
| all of our tweet history.
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/could_an_open_source_twittersphere_save_twitter_or_kill_it_
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