Identi.ca Latest: Indentifox, Posty, new features

Tech : Duncan Riley
Posted: July 21, 2008

The Identi.ca train continues to roll at the speed of light with a number of new features and clients.

On the client side, the first Identi.ca client has been released for Firefox. Identifox is a port of the Twitterfox client, and delivers the Identi.ca experience to the browser. Unlike Twhirl it doesn’t support push updates, but does support short urls, replies and recent updates, all from within Firefox or Flock.

Posty, an all in one AIR application for Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed (see our review here) has added Indenti.ca to its line up. Identi.ca support comes with Personal messages, friends timeline, replies, and a public timeline in the menu bar, and as with all clients allows replies to messages. The updated version with Indenti.ca support is available for download here.

SarahinTampa reports a number of changes to Indenti.ca itself, including:

* Auto-follow your followers: a checkbox in your settings –> profile tab lets you automatically follow those that follow you. It’s recommended for “non-humans,” but I’m giving it a go.
* SMS: Another tab in your settings lets you get your dents via SMS. Just enter your phone number and carrier.

I said it yesterday, and I’ll probably keep saying it, the speed at which Identi.ca is moving is incredible, with the service now 18 days old. If it fails in the future it certainly won’t be for a lack of third party support.

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July 21, 2008 at 5:34 pm David Smith

Can I not just rely on one service to replicate my posts across all these other services using some sorta extensible open api ? Twitter being the biggest whale in this ocean atm would ideally be the primary source of sorts but so lacks in other areas of the social graph ! Looking for a friendfeed in reverse I guess ? Scratch that invert it grrrr how frustrating ! love FF shame it makes regular folk run away in fear brains a melting :)
July 21, 2008 at 5:39 pm Hao Chen

http://ping.fm
July 21, 2008 at 5:44 pm David Smith

in light of finding a home that is the be all and end all I will take ping.fm thx Hao . . . frak it . . gotta Beta code anyone ?
July 21, 2008 at 5:56 pm Duncan Riley

David: pingadactyl
July 21, 2008 at 5:58 pm David Smith

Thanks Duncan I'm in :) cheers !
July 21, 2008 at 6:01 pm K Welch

hellotxt if for some reason you don't like ping.fm
July 21, 2008 at 6:07 pm Shivanand Velmurugan

@David coz a lot of us have different audiences on each service. eg. I am invested in FF and twitter and pownce, in that order and just cross post to jaiku.
July 21, 2008 at 6:10 pm Charlie Anzman

Was very impressed with the 'new' Twirl - Using it since Loic posted it last night. Giving this a spin now ....
July 21, 2008 at 6:31 pm Louis Gray

I particularly dig the Posty screenshot.
July 21, 2008 at 7:10 pm Duncan Riley

I thought you would Louis :-) Apol for not linking to you, I'd already written the post and screenshots are the last thing I do pre-publication.
July 21, 2008 at 7:14 pm Louis Gray

No problem at all, Duncan. I didn't link to you because my story went first. :-)
July 21, 2008 at 7:15 pm Susan Beebe

LOL @ Louis - of course you like I like - what's not to like?! :*) I like it!
July 21, 2008 at 7:17 pm Duncan Riley

Louis, by a matter of minutes....I'll have to be quicker next time ;-)
July 21, 2008 at 7:32 pm Suhit Anantula

This is good...I have been a Twitter user for the past couple of months or so. I waiting to see how this will pan out...but from side whatever works is good enough.
July 21, 2008 at 8:22 pm Sarah Perez

@louis actually mine went first - posty got a mention at the bottom. ;) ha ha @duncan thanks for the link :)
July 21, 2008 at 8:24 pm Duncan Riley

Sarah, saw yours first + linked.
July 21, 2008 at 8:25 pm fotographic

some awfully good GM scripts for Identi.ca .. thanks for that :) !!!
July 21, 2008 at 8:26 pm Sarah Perez

I really don't care, - sarahintampa.com is not a business :) - just poking fun @louis
July 21, 2008 at 8:26 pm Duncan Riley

still, good job in picking up on Posty plus the changes.
July 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm Louis Gray

Oh yeah, Sarah, my Tweet was 11 hours ago, so I totally beat you. http://twitter.com/louisgray/statuses/864299832 :-)
July 21, 2008 at 8:58 pm Sarah Perez

Well, I received my email from Cesare over 11 hrs ago and had already composed the blog post in my brain, so technically....
July 21, 2008 at 8:58 pm Sarah Perez

OK I have to stop now, going to fall out of my chair laughing :)
July 21, 2008 at 9:18 pm Duncan Riley

yeah, but you both didn't find Identifox, so there :-p
July 22, 2008 at 9:39 am Sarah Perez

well, actually....a friend on identica told me about it (http://identi.ca/notice/128192) and I updated my post with that news :) lol
July 22, 2008 at 10:00 am Trent Olson

@Sarah: you're welcome :) but don't click that link now...looks like identi.ca is down...
July 23, 2008 at 12:22 am Evan Prodromou

@David Smith, the whole point of openmicroblogging is to do that kind of federated network for you. So, YES, but we have to get the other services to sign on.
July 23, 2008 at 3:19 am Ernie Oporto

ping.fm FTW!
July 23, 2008 at 3:42 am Ernie Oporto

Seriously though, it seems like identi.ca is just copying everything twitted does with a huge lag. Anything new could have easily been tacked onto twitter as others have done, instead of going to the trouble of creating a whole new posting service to fracture the community. It may have uptime going for it but that is only good while they are small. Will they scale any better?
July 23, 2008 at 11:51 am funkyboy

Ok. Let's start an auction! How much do you bid to receive the notification of the new version Posty TEN minutes before the rest of the group? Place you bid ;)