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StatusNet Raises $875,000 for Open-Source Microblogging

Shaun Morton — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:03:37 +0000

StatusNet has recently announced the completion of an $875,000 financial round. Investors in the Montreal-based company include Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capita, and Footlia.com founder Oleg Tscheltzoff.

The company, known for their open-source microblogging network Identi.ca, plans to offer a service that allows businesses and individuals to create and run their own network. Currently, there are around 2,000 sites powered by StatusNet, with between 200,000 – 300,000 users.

The service is currently in private beta, but anyone who is interested in running their own service can download the software for free from the StatusNet website.

Identi.ca

Shaun Morton — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:59:55 +0000

Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the free software StatusNet.

If you register for an account, you can post small (140 chars or less) text notices about yourself, where you are, what you’re doing, or practically anything you want. You can also subscribe to the notices of your friends, or other people you’re interested in, and follow them on the Web or in an RSS feed.

Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.

The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.

Website: Identi.ca

OpenMicroblogging

Shaun Morton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:45:03 +0000

OpenMicroBlogging is an effort to create an open standard for micro-blogging. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route microblogging messages between users in a near-realtime timeframe. Current implementations of the protocol include Laconi.ca and OpenMicroblogger.

Website: OpenMicroblogging.org

Jaiku

Shaun Morton — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:25:16 +0000

Jaiku’s goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to have conversations. It offers a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing updates with them on the Web, IM, and SMS – as well as through third-party applications built by other developers using the JaikuAPI.

Jaiku is a part of Google. The service is maintained by volunteer Google engineers on their spare time.

Jaiku Goes Open Source

Shaun Morton — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:32:12 +0000

Recently, Google announced that Jaiku, the microblogging service acquired in 2007, will be ported to the Google App Engine, and its code will be open sourced. On the Google Code Blog, Vic Gundora, VP of Engineering, wrote: “With the open source Jaiku Engine project, organizations, groups and individuals will be able to roll-their-own microblogging services and deploy them on Google App Engine. The new Jaiku Engine will include support for OAuth, and we’re excited about developers using this proven code as a starting point in creating a freely available and federated, open source microblogging platform” There has been much interest in decentralized microblogging over the past year, due mostly to the work done by Evan Prodromou with his Laconi.ca software. In addition, there’s the OpenMicroblogging specification which allows different microblogging services to communitcate with each other. With Jaiku going open source, it is very likely that we could see a developer make it compatible with the OpenMicroblogging specification. Time will tell.