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  BlueCockatoo

  1 year ago

  Does the verb have to be something flashy? How about the simple, standard, easily groked term "post"? It's worked well for blogs, BBSes and snail mail for years.
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  Julian Baldwin

  1 year ago

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  Corvida

  1 year ago

  But there's something fun about a community having its own lingo.
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  Earle Martin

  12 months ago

  I was thinking "note" (140 characters is about as much as you could comfortably fit on a Post-It). "Post" has a strong established meaning for a longer piece of text.
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  Jean-Marc Liotier

  1 year ago

  This is not only about Identi.ca but rather about Laconi.ca of which Identi.ca is just the reference deployment. In spite of all its functional shortcomings, Laconi.ca is the embryo of a truly open microblogging network based on federation. It is still HTTP polling, so the scalability problems shown by Twitter are still there, but at least it is open so that will be fixed. The Identi.ca roadmap advertises plans for polling and posting to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Facebook etc. - so I would infer without having looked at the code that it has at least some support for modularity at the transport level. This means that future development of a XMPP publish-subscribe transport used in parallel to the proprietary protocols is probably possible. If Laconi.ca provides the Web user interface, the connectivity to proprietary networks and enough buzz to recruit a critical mass of users, that is a great start ! We’ll soon see if XMPP publish-subscribe can make that party even better.
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  xavierv

  1 year ago

  So basically there's nothing right now, and all those cool new features will come, but it's already the new Twitter killer? That sounds a little precipitated, doesn't it?
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  Corvida

  1 year ago

  It could be a Twitter killer because of the community, not the apps. :) And people are willing to wait a little for features as long as the platform's foundation works.
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  leigh

  1 year ago

  Nothing new? Wait...it's .ca That's totally new! Maybe the new verb can be something Canadianish?
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  Corvida

  1 year ago

  lol any suggestions on that?
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  toddmck

  12 months ago

  On the verb, how about playing off the .ca domain AND the bird theme. Tweet -> Caw (you know, like the sound a crow makes)
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  Earle Martin

  12 months ago

  I think getting away from the Twitter name entirely is only a good thing. Playing on someone else's trademark makes your service seem like a derivative of theirs, which Laconi.ca/Identi.ca aren't.
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  Tyler

  1 year ago

  canadian verb? that would imply they actually do something up there! [joking]
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  leigh

  1 year ago

  Yeah we do a lot up here. We go down there, see what you are doing and copy it. Keeps us VERY busy.
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  Tyler

  1 year ago

  LOL
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  news2me

  1 year ago

  Great idea! There's a 24/7 Canadian restaurant called Denny's that everyone knows how to find, parking is great and the coffee's always on. How about calling it a 'deni' ? Kinda rolls off the tongue nicely:)
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  smbeebe

  1 year ago

  Great post, thanks! You're the Queen of Identi.ca Cordiva!!
  
  My vote = dent (sounds like the site name, it's easy to remember and it sorta makes sense)
  
  http://identi.ca/susanbeebe
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  Tyler

  1 year ago

  nice post :)
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  gwalter

  1 year ago

  I prefer ping to ding, but didn't have that option above. ping is universal/generic across sites.
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  Jansen

  1 year ago

  Cross-post to Twitter + Pull messages from Twitter + Gtalk Support. Now i can give up Twitter IM Bot to replace it by Identi.ca Gtalk bot, can I?
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  TheMacMommy

  1 year ago

  you rawk! thanks for this! :)
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  justavo

  1 year ago

  This is a good link, actually AFAIK, the first post about identi.ca
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  justavo

  1 year ago

  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/indentica_...
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  Pierro

  1 year ago

  yupp - nice post, im not sure, but you can use ping.fm with Identi.Ca too.
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  marcuhlig

  1 year ago

  i like identi.ca because its open source, written in php, and easy to hack. but my guess is that it won't be very scalable either, so we have the twitter problem again. neither php nor ror were developed to handle such a messaging service, the only real alternative is twoorl and i don't understand why there is not more hype about this erlang app.
  
  this one would actually have the potential to become a twitter killer, imho...
  
  http://twoorl.com/home
  http://code.google.com/p/twoorl/
  http://github.com/yariv/twoorl/tree/master
  
  btw, my identi.ca account is here:
  
  http://identi.ca/marcuhlig/
  
  cheers
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  Herb

  1 year ago

  Speaking of scalability, it's already painfully slow! What will happen as more and more sign up to check it out?
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  Magnus

  1 year ago

  The site has fallen over dead. So at least it has successfully copied *that* particular feature from Twitter.
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  xavierv

  1 year ago

  Well it doesn't seem like the platform foundation is working that good. But whichever PR agency is behind this (I have my idea), they sure got a lot of people enthusiastic about identi.ca.
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  marcuhlig

  1 year ago

  i was wondering about the pr too, the service is definitely not as great as the hype it currently gets, there is better stuff out there... what do you think, who is behind this pr campaign?
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  Earle Martin

  12 months ago

  Guys, as a friend of Evan, whose service Identi.ca is, and an early tester, I can tell you for a fact that it's entirely word of mouth. I've been amazed at the good buzz that everyone's generated, and I don't think he expected quite this much, either.
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  marcuhlig

  12 months ago

  ok, so why does it get the buzz, while the other hundred 'twitter killers' don't. it's not the quality of the app, see my comment below, others are far more promising, at least imho... i don't believe in miracles...
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  n8k99

  1 year ago

  nice work again!
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  mterenzio

  1 year ago

  Feel free to Try Twitter.IM if you normally get notifications from Twitter to GTalk. If you use the same GTalk account for Identi.ca it will aggregate and also post to/from both sites. ; )
  
  http://twitter.im/register/
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  Vlad

  1 year ago

  I think almost everyone agrees that taking microblogging the open source way is interesting and worth watching. But, in the mean time, someone please explain to me how it is you can build a community with no replies. This has potential, but is a pre-pre-alpha stage service imho. Now until it gets polished, if it ever will, why don't all of you flock to Jaiku? You know, that actually works and has, by far, the best support for conversations. And don't say it's closed. www.jaikuinvites.com FTW.
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  vdegeorge

  1 year ago

  If it's the "twitter killer" then it just needs to hurry up and kill it, because I (and I suspect many others) simply don't have the time for follow multiple services, which many will have to do until everyone jumps over to identi.ca (if that even happens).
  
  I feel like each time something like this comes like this it just causes more schmuggling (social media juggling) by everyone involved, which hurts the community overall.
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  sean808080

  1 year ago

  a great write up of the identi.ca. it's interesting to arrive to a new service with a list of assumptions of what is needed thanks to the bad experiences most of us have had with twitter.
  
  for me, the killer feature that identi.ca must have over twitter if it's to be viable is the ability to scale without the dreaded fail whale. everything else is gravy.
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  Racing School

  7 months ago

  Looks scary. Twitter better get their act together before they get bumped out of the way.
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  SEO

  6 months ago

  Twitter has already becoming a habit for many social media addicts out there. It will be difficult to kick Twitter out of the market, moreover Identica is simply a cloneof Twitter and has lesser features too.
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  williamgeorge

  3 months ago

  Now is the perfect time to release, when Twitter is failing, and people are looking for refuge. Also, it’s open source, which means the best and the brightest software engineers in the world will have a chance at creating a scalable, decentralized Twitter clone. Even on Day 0, so much happened. There was an issue with RSS that people pointed out when importing to other services like Friendfeed, and evan fixed it within an hour. There were no Replies, so people took it onto themselves to write a Greasemonkey script and a Yahoo Pipe. Many people already started looking at the code.
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