February 2010

StatusNet Inc Launches StatusNet Enterprise Network

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 11:38

Commercial support program for companies using Open Source microblogging tool

Montreal, Thursday, 25 February 2010 – StatusNet Inc, makers of the StatusNet Open Source microblogging server, launched the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN), their support program specifically tailored for corporate clients. Initial customers include Motorola Corporation and Canonical Ltd.

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Status.net Maintenance 25 February 2010 @ 9:00pm EST

Submitted by Nate Prodromou on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 11:30

Hello All,
Tonight, at 9:00pm EST we'll be performing site maintenance on the StatusNet Cloud Service. All status.net-hosted sites (including Identi.ca) will be offline for a brief period during the upgrade. It is expected that there will be some performance degradation as we bring the site back online, and that it could continue through sometime around 1:00am EST. As usual, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this disruption in service might cause.

Jobs at StatusNet Inc.

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 13:59

I wanted to draw attention to the fact that we have three positions we're hiring for here in Montreal.

AdBard on Identi.ca

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:21

I'm excited to say that we've launched support for the adbard.net network on Identi.ca today. Identi.ca users will notice relevant links to Free Software-related companies, events, projects and services in the sidebars on Identi.ca pages.

Identi.ca character limit results

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 17:13

Last week we started a poll to measure community will on the preferred character limit for identi.ca. We used a polling tool built into the Drupal system we use for this blog. We also used an ad hoc system, asking users to post on Identi.ca with tags like #limit140, #limit280, to indicate their preference.

StatusCampLA Announced and StatusNet at SCALE2010

Submitted by Jon Phillips on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 07:36

In addition to doing a StatusCheck at FOSDEM2010 in Brussels this Saturday night, we are announcing StatusCampLA to be held in synchronization with SCALE2010 in Los Angeles, Feb 19-21 in LA, USA.

POLL: Character Limit on Identi.ca

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 19:16

One of the features of the StatusNet software has been that notices are limited to 140 Unicode characters, which (usually...) fits into a single SMS message, and which is the character limit for Twitter tweets. Some users love the limitations that 140 characters entail. Others find it unnecessarily restricting.

Important security alert for all versions of StatusNet

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 14:58

This morning at 9AM we received notice of a security vulnerability in all versions of the StatusNet software. The StatusNet team has verified the vulnerability and identified a separate but similar vulnerability in another block of code. For these reasons, we've issued Security Alert 0000002 and made new versions of all three branches of our software available for download.