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It's now official, as was reported in GigaOm ("Identi.ca Gets Funding To Make Open-source Twitter Variant"): venture investor Montreal Start Up is leading a small group of private investors in Control Yourself, Inc.

I'm excited to be participating in MBC09, the Microblogging Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Running from January 23-24, MBC09 will be the first microblogging event in Europe. Control Yourself, Inc. is a proud sponsor of this community-organized event.

So many of our participants on identi.ca are European -- it's been a great incentive to be more and more aware of Europe's role in Open Source, open network services, and open standards. I'm really looking forward to the dialogue and talks at MBC09, and hope to see many of you there.

The upgrade of Identi.ca to Laconica 0.6.4 seems to have gone pretty well, but I'm going to give it a night to let people check out the new features before tagging the version and making a tarball for download.

I want to take a second to congratulate the Pownce team on their acquisition by Six Apart. 6A is a great company doing really interesting work, and it sounds like it's going to be a great opportunity for both groups.

One of the downsides is that the Pownce site will be shutting down on Dec. 15.