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StatusReport: FSOSS, StatusNet 0.9.6 release candidate, ad server changes on Identi.ca.

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 13:56

A familiar face that seems to be popping up everywhere lately is that of James Walker, Senior Services Architect for StatusNet. Not only did he present at last week's DrupalCamp Montreal, but he is also presenting today at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium.

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IRC and MSN (WLM) interface plugins for StatusNet.

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:57

This past weekend was the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit, and seeing as how we have not heard from a few of our students, I thought it would be nice to check in with them to see how they have been doing. Today we will be hearing from Luke:

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StatusReport: Sharism Conference, Freedom in the Cloud Miniconference & GSoC Mentor Summit.

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 14:04

StatusNet is on the road this week, travelling to different continents to attend and present at various conferences. It is important that members of the Federated Social Web gather, discuss, and share their experiences.

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StatusReport: ABC News Radio on StatusNet, Blog World Expo & Sharism Conference.

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 12:51

Over the past week, we released a StatusNet Customer Survey in order to get to know what our customers think of our software and we had a presence at the Blog World Expo. The release that we are most excited about is that about ABC News Radio and how they are using StatusNet's services to reach their public.

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StatusReport: New themes on the Cloud, End of GSoC updates, and Federated Friday #2.

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:11

Hello and welcome to another update from StatusNet. This past week StatusNet released some new themes on the Cloud, there were updates from a few of our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students, and Evan released his most recent list of sites that are worth subscribing to on StatusNet.

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StatusNet Google Summer of Code Student Implements Lists!

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 11:14

In continuing with our Google Summer of Code Wrap-up, today we will be hearing from Shashi who was mentored by Zach Copley. Here is what Shashi had to say:  

Hello, StatusNet world!

This is Shashi again, this summer was a blast, with a lot of fun-filled learning and programming, thanks to my mentor Zach and the StatusNet folk. I am super-excited to be writing the final report of my Google Summer of Code project, Twitter lists for StatusNet. Below is a brief description of what has come out of it:

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StatusReport: StatusNet iPhone App hits App Store, Release of Cloud Service Premium Plans, and a way to "Stop Doing Yammer Time"

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 14:55

iPhone users everywhere, now is your chance to jump up and down! We have released our iPhone App so that you can stay StatusNet connected everywhere you go! Although it has been a cold and dreary week here in Montreal, Canada, StatusNet has been keeping warm by hacking away, making sure to come out with as many releases as possible! Here are a some new things that you might not have heard about:

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StatusNet Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up with Ruturaj!

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 08:24

After a summer of hacking, our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students are now ready to give us their final updates on what they accomplished since we last heard from them during the GSoC midterms. Today we will be hearing from Ruturaj whose mentor was Brion Vibber (Senior Software Architect at StatusNet). Here is what Ruturaj had to say:

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StatusReport: 25% discount on our premium service, release of StatusNet Desktop 0.9.1 and mobile client on Android Market!

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Wed, 09/22/2010 - 15:24

StatusNet is growing and becoming more popular each and every day! Not only did we manage to avoid an attack, one that was felt by Twitter users from all over the world this past Tuesday, but we also released our mobile client onto the Android App Market. We could not have done all of this without the great people that work for StatusNet, our investors, and those of us who make up the StatusNet community. For a limited time, we are offering 25% off of our premium package to Cloud beta users if they would like to upgrade before our general release.

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StatusReport: StatusNet 0.9.5 released and StatusNet mobile beta 7 is now available for the iPhone!

Submitted by Derek Derouin on Fri, 09/17/2010 - 12:23

Hello everyone, and welcome to another weekly update from your friends at StatusNet. This past week has once again been full of releases, including the latest version StatusNet 0.9.5, the StatusNet mobile client beta 7 for the iPhone, and a screencast of how StatusNet is implementing SWAT0! With all of these great things going on, I bet you just can't wait to learn more, so let's get started!

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