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Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities

Source: louisgray.com

Aug 13, 2008

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By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)

Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about and the fact that Laconi.ca, the code that powers Identi.ca, makes this very easy for anyone to do.

I realized this today when Jay Ridgeway was able to show how to set up a simple Federated instance of Laconi.ca in just 7 steps. The idea behind "Federation" is that I can sign up for Identi.ca, or any other Laconi.ca-based platform and be able to follow anyone on any of the other Laconi.ca-based platforms all on my prefered service of choice. Today I began imagining how others could begin utilizing this technology - essentially it is a technology built to allow other similar systems built on the same technology to talk with each other.

Sound familiar? Laconi.ca is building an actual Protocol underneath it all where other types of software ...Read the full article

Comments (3)

Lastkaled,

Aug 13, 2008

Jh2fct,

Aug 13, 2008

Great idea: Build your own protocol for twitter like messaging. But then expect everyone to use it? With so much social media out there is this a reasonable expectation? I think not