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Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

williamgeorge — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:43:38 -0000

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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Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

rifchia — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:35:28 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

globalrs — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:32:12 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

marcuhlig — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:28:15 -0000

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...

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

downlode — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:37:12 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

downlode — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:35:10 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

downlode — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:30:32 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

toddmck — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:00 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

sean808080 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:20:38 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

vdegeorge — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

Corvida — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:44:55 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

bvlad — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:30:49 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

news2me — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:23 -0000

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:)

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

marcuhlig — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:16:45 -0000

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?

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

Julian Baldwin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:13:41 -0000

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

tjgillies — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:00:06 -0000

LOL

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

leigh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:52:38 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

tjgillies — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:50:12 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

mterenzio — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:08:20 -0000

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/

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

BlueCockatoo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:30:18 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

Corvida — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:17 -0000

lol any suggestions on that?

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

n8k99 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:01:51 -0000

nice work again!

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

xavierv — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:15:10 -0000

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.

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

Magnus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:58:15 -0000

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

Re: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away

hherbzilla — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:57 -0000

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