Fail: Twitter now not going to support OpenMicroblogging

Just when we thought Twitter may have finally redeemed themselves, they change their mind. We ran a story at the beginning of November reporting that Twitter was looking at adopting support for the OpenMicroblogging standard, a play that ... continue

Twitter could soon play nicely with its neighbors

Twitter may implement support for the OpenMicroblogging standard, a function that will allow users on any supported service to subscribe to users on other sites running the standard. Jesse Stay stumbled upon the revelation in the Twitter bug ... continue

Seesmic Update: Nokia client, Twhirl update with Laconi.ca support

Two news stories on the Seesmic front this week that we're late in covering: Seesmic on Nokia phones, and a Twhirl update. Seesmic is now available on Nokia N95 phones, the first time Seesmic has offered a ... continue

Jisko: Competition for Identi.ca?

Jisko is a newish microblogging service that aims to compete with Twitter by offering an open source platform. Jisko is open for business now and offers a range of standard features including replies tab, direct messaging, and friend ... continue

Laconi.ca list of installs plus desktop developer challenge

Indenti.ca continues to grow from strength to strength, as we've reported a number of times this week. A lot of this early success, 21 days post launch, is due to the community effort around the open source ... continue

FriendFeed adds support for Plurk and Identi.ca

FriendFeed has added native support for microblogging platforms Plurk and Identi.ca, bringing the two services into the FriendFeed stream. Previously, users could import messages from both services via RSS feed and marked as a blog, where as now ... continue

Identi.ca Latest: Indentifox, Posty, new features

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 ... continue

Twhirl now supports Identi.ca

The next update of the Twitter/ FriendFeed/ Seesmic AIR application Twhirl will include support for Identi.ca, according to a scoop by Rafe Needleman at WebWare. The even more interesting thing about the implementation: Twhirl supports push updates from ... continue

Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca moving at the speed of light

Proving the advantages of offering a microblogging platform open source, Laconi.ca, the script behind Identi.ca is now offering a Twitter compatible API, days after offering its first API, and exactly 15 days after launching. Dave Winer writes: Being compatible ... continue

Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca gets its first API

The team behind the open source Twitter alternative Laconi.ca, the code behind the Identi.ca microblogging service, has released the codes first API. The new API is described by the Laconi.ca dev team as Version 0 and not a ... continue

Identi.ca gets replies tab, clones already appearing

Open source microblogging platform Identi.ca, which launched 5 days ago to a big splash, is already evolving with the addition of a replies tab. The basic feature allows users to see who has responded to them on Identi.ca, ... continue

Ping.fm helps platform overkill + Invites

If you've not heard of Ping.fm before but are suffering from social/ microblogging service overkill, Ping.fm is a service for you. The closed beta service has been around for some time, but I only got my hands ... continue

“We’re all so desperate for a Twitter that works.” The Identi.ca wrapup post

A wry version of me could easily suggest that first adopters like shiny new things and flock en masse to each new thing that comes along. While that's in part true, there's actually a deeper need here. ... continue

Could Identi.ca be a Fail Whale Killer?

Indenti.ca is a new microblogging service with extra features that immediately place this as a potential Twitter killer: it's open source AND it supports OpenMicroBlogging. If OpenMicroBlogging means nothing to you, let me explain. From very early on ... continue