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I'm happy to announce today that our main product, the Open Source microblogging server Laconica, has a new name.

StatusNet is the new name that simply reflects what our software does: sends status updates into your social network. We think it's clear and simple, serious without being stuffy.

As part of this change, we've also made changes to the company itself.

@evan and I are in San Jose for OSCON and naturally we're calling a dent event. Time: tomorrow night at 5:00 PM. Location: Gordon Biersch at 33 E San Fernando St, a short walk from the San Jose Convention Center. Gordon Biersch has tasty beer and upscale pub grub. No need to be an OSCON attendee to come to the Dent Event, all identi.ca users and other interested parties are welcome. We look forward to seeing you there!

It's been one year since the public launch of identi.ca on July 2, 2008.

At the time, I'd been working on the software for a few months, and after some friendly beta testing by Montreal tech folks, longtime Free-Software-loving friends, and autonomo.us members, I felt that it was time to Release Early, Release Often. So on vacation in Lake Tahoe, I sent out an announcement email to beta users at 5:30AM PDT.

Our upgrade on Wednesday went... well... we're giving it a C right about now. Some parts have been great, like the new features that we get with our new 0.8.0 pre-release version of Laconica. But we've also moved to new hosting and we're rolled out on the status.net network, and that's meant some instability.

Right now we know of at least a few problems with the site, which we're working hard to fix:

1. Some users can't log in, or do anything else.