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Posted 1 year 45 weeks ago

It's a pretty dense anniversary time for me, falling between July 1st, Canada Day, the national holiday of my adopted home, and July 4th, Independence Day. the national holiday of my home. The first emphasizes confederation -- coming together for the common good -- while the second emphasizes individual autonomy. In between  is today, July 2nd, is the third anniversary of the launch of identi.ca .

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Posted 1 year 46 weeks ago

We've got some unscheduled downtime on some StatusNet OnDemand sites. Those sites are marked for "maintenance" and should show an error if requested.

We'll have an update here when the sites are back up.

UPDATE: sites are back up.

Posted 1 year 49 weeks ago

We're having unschedule downtime on the StatusNet Cloud Service, which hosts many *.status.net sites as well as identi.ca.

We'll have updates as we see more progress.

Update: we're back!

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Posted 1 year 49 weeks ago

New executive will guide next stage of growth for leading open-source social software startup.

Posted 1 year 51 weeks ago

There is a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the development (1.0.x) branch of StatusNet, including the alpha4 release previously available for download from the StatusNet site.

The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user input of the description field in the question-and-answer (QnA) plugin. Attackers could post hostile Javascript or other HTML code into the application that would be seen, and executed, by other users on the network. Versions of the 1.0.x branch below alpha5 are affected.

Posted 2 years 1 week ago

I'm going to be speaking at the upcoming OpenSocial State of the Union 2011 on Thursday. I'm excited about the newest directions that OpenSocial has been taking for the last few months, and I think OpenSocial has a critical role to play in the development of heterogeneous, integrated social networks.

Posted 2 years 3 weeks ago

The Google Summer of Code 2011 student projects were announced today. StatusNet got 5 slots, and here are the projects we'll be mentoring this year:

Posted 2 years 5 weeks ago

Some of our sites, including http://freelish.us/, are unavailable right now, due to unscheduled emergency database maintenance.

Update: we're back.

Update: I didn't make it clear in the first post that this was an error.

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Posted 2 years 6 weeks ago

People familiar with StatusNet know that we're dedicated to the federated social web. They probably also know that our software allows sharing status updates between social networking sites, using a protocol suite we call OStatus.

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Posted 2 years 9 weeks ago

StatusNet 0.9.7 is available for download. This is a feature, bug fix, and documentation release that includes some significant new features. All users of StatusNet 0.9.6 and below are recommended to upgrade.

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