Home arrow Forums
Open Source Twitter Competitor Emerges (Slashdot) PDF Print E-mail
Written by Webmaster   
Saturday, 05 July 2008
More info...
ruphus13 writes "Twitter has had a lot of public woes with Open Source technologies like Ruby on Rails, and a lot of alternatives have sprung up in the micro-blogging world, but no one has managed to dislodge twitter in its usage or appeal. Now, an Open Source alternative by Identi.ca, backed by project Laconica has emerged. From the article, 'It supports OpenID for logins, is completely free ...

For grad, blogging dies hard (Daily Northwestern)
As a staff, we "have very little in common aside from being completely obsessed with blogs and blogging." So wrote Nicholas Jackson when he announced this paper's staff. Most of us have experience snarkily chronicling campus goings-on, personal goings-on and worldly goings-on, or some combination thereof, on our Blogspot, Tumblr and Wordpress pages.

Posterous: Minimalist Blogging (ReadWriteWeb)
Posterous is such a simple microblogging platform, it almost makes Tumblr look overly complicated. The Y Combinator funded startup is a bit of a mix between a blogging and lifestreaming service, with a little dose of Twitter thrown in for good measure. To start using it, users only have to send an email to post AT posterous.com and, within a few minutes, posterous will respond with the ...

Share Your Opinion. (0 posts)

Tag it:
Blinkbits
BlinkList
blogmarks
co.mments
connotea
Delicious
De.lirio.us
Digg
feedmelinks
Furl it!
Hugg
Ma.gnolia
Mister.Wong
Netvouz
NewsVine
Reddit
Stumble
Technorati
Last Updated ( Saturday, 05 July 2008 )
 
< Prev   Next >

AdSense