New OpenMicroBlogging Identi.ca
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People like Twitter and love Plurk now days, yet blogsphere buzz started talking about open microblogging website called Identi.ca . Identi.ca is an open source “…microblogging service to publish notices to users of another service, given the other users’ permission.”
The only thing what bothered me is that site is loading slow. But on positive side it is very easy to navigate.
What is OpenMicroBlogging
What Mashable things about it.
TechMeme discussions:
uncanriley.com, StartupNorth, VentureBeat, SheGeeks, Maple Leaf 2.0, sarahintampa, The Inquisitr, Webomatica, Stay N\’ Alive, Industry Standard, TomsTechBlog.com, evan, blackrimglasses.com and Ross Mayfield’s Weblog
If they don’t fix the speed issues, I predict this particular site will enter the dead pool quickly. Fortunately, since it’s open source, someone with real servers could create a working clone fairly quickly.
At first glance the source code seems lean, so I assume its a server issue.
@ThinkingSerious: I agree!
IMHO this site has a long way to go to be taken seriously. My fear is that because it is open source there will be another wave of micro-blogging sites that claim to be the latest/greatest and further fragment the various communities that exist today.