October 2009

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StatusNet Closes $875K Seed Financing Round

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 17:21

Montreal, Canada - StatusNet, the company that develops an Open Source micro-blogging platform, has completed an $875,000 financing round. Investors include local venture capital groups Montreal Start Up and iNovia Capital as well as European angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff of Fotolia.com.

“We're excited by the opportunity for growth this investment brings,” says Evan Prodromou, CEO of StatusNet Inc.

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StatusNet at #cmToronto

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 13:39

A quick note (yeah, I know, it's always a "quick note") that I'll be at the ChangeMedium Toronto (#cmToronto) event tomorrow, October 24, in Toronto ON.

#cmToronto is an unconference for the people who are building the real-time web (micro-messaging, mobile web, what have you).

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Dev introduction: Brion Vibber

Submitted by Brion Vibber on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 15:37

Originally posted to statusnet-dev mailing list last week.

Hi all --

As Evan announced a couple weeks ago, I'm joining StatusNet as senior architect to lead development as we push towards the 1.0 release and form

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StatusNet at ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 04:06

A quick note: October 15th is the occasion of the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit put on by our friends at ReadWriteWeb. The one-day event will take place at the Computer History Museum (1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.) in Mountain View, CA.

We'll have not one but three StatusNet staff at the RWW Real-Time event.

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Chris Murtagh Joins StatusNet

Submitted by Christopher Murtagh on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:41

Hey folks, I'm Christopher Murtagh (@xopher) and I'm a new hire at StatusNet. I've been working with the company for the last month but have been officially a staff member as of September 15th.

A bit about me

Originally from the Ottawa area, I first moved to Montreal for CEGEP to study music and computer science and have stayed ever since.