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Posted 4 years 17 weeks ago

We'll be doing a massive upgrade to support the new 0.7.0 version of Laconica on Identica, so the site will be down for a while on Friday morning. Watch here for release notes!

Posted 4 years 18 weeks ago

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.

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Posted 4 years 19 weeks ago

It's been a little over 6 months since I launched three new projects simultaneously: the Identi.ca microblogging service, the Laconica Open Source software that runs it, and the OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) protocol that links Laconica sites together.

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Posted 4 years 19 weeks ago

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.

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Posted 4 years 22 weeks ago

Control Yourself's 4-person Montreal staff will be at tonight's CelebrateCamp. We're looking forward to hanging out with others from the Montreal tech startup community for this holiday event.

Posted 4 years 23 weeks ago

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.

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Posted 4 years 23 weeks ago

Quick note: we'll be releasing a new version of Laconica on Identi.ca tonight, December 11 2008, at 11PM EDT. Although it is a minor release, it will include some new user-visible features, such as "blocking" unwanted subscribers, and finer-grained control of subscription output.

Identi.ca will be down for about 15-20 minutes.

Posted 4 years 24 weeks ago

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.

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Posted 4 years 25 weeks ago

We're happy to see a nice application ecosystem steadily growing around Identi.ca, including a number of great Identi.ca clients for the iPhone (which also work with the iPod Touch). A frequently asked question on Identi.ca is, what Identi.ca clients are there for the iPhone? Here's a rundown of what's available.

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Posted 4 years 25 weeks ago

I'll be present at StartupCampMontreal3, the upcoming event for entrepreneurs and investors in Montreal. The event takes place at the SAT at 1195 blvd. St. Laurent on Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 between 6PM and 10PM. If you'd like to meet, please let me know -- it's going to be a busy event for everyone!