Identi.ca Canada’s gift to microblogging and might become Twitter’s salvation
July 2, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
The day after Canada Day and we have a new, and potentially exciting, microblogging service to play around with. Identi.ca might seem like “just another Twitter clone”, but I think they are really onto something here.
Corvida, Sarah Perez, and Marshall Kirkpatrick all have it right on target. Sure, it’s early days and Identi.ca doesn’t have all the features that we’re used to, but they have one thing that Twitter, Pownce, and Jaiku all missed: the are offering the sever software as open source that can we can install ourselves.
Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, even FriendFeed, all rely on increasing their own capacity to survive. This is different. We can install the server ourselves and then, of course like POP, have accounts to connect to the larger cloud with.
The question will be not how fast will Identi.ca add Twitter, but how fast will Twitter add Laconica.
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I’m not sold on this yet. For one thing, Identi.ca was slow yesterday and down this morning. For another, once people realize that just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s better, things will get back to reality.
Mack, yes, the service is certainly having its ups and downs this morning for sure.
I still look at this as like POP servers. POP, imho, is what allowed email to become the killer app.
Could this be the first microblogging server that will do the same? That’s the question on my mind.
going open source is a great strategy for a platform. It will ensure identi.ca’s service is around for a while.