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Open Source Microblogging

Evan Prodromou (Control Yourself, Inc.) Moderated by: Evan Prodromou
10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008
Emerging Topics
 Location: D138

Identi.ca is an open source microblogging platform built to embrace open standards. It’s a Twitter you can fix.

Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Its main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.

The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.

Hear Identi.ca’s story from its creator and find out how Identi.ca changed the microblogging game overnight.

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Evan Prodromou

Control Yourself, Inc.

Evan is a Free Software developer and entrepreneur, originally from San Francisco, now settled in Montreal. Best known for launching Wikitravel, the Free travel guide, he recently launched Identi.ca, an Open Service for microblogging, and leads the development of its software, Laconica.

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