Evan Prodromou's blog

One-click install of StatusNet on DreamHost

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 20:43

It was with exceptional pleasure that we heard about DreamHost's plans add StatusNet to their one-click install program. DreamHost has a great reputation among Web pros for its exceptional hosting options, and we're often asked about how to install on their platform. Having the software available as a one-click install is going to help a lot of DreamHost customers.

StatusNet Cloud Service Launches Public Beta

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:44

Montreal, Tuesday 9 March 2010 – StatusNet Inc launched the StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS) for public beta today. The SCS allows anyone to quickly setup a status update site at http://status.net with one of three different plans: single-user, community, and private. Over 10,000 organizations from the Sacramento Kings NBA team to software provider Mozilla are currently using the StatusNet cloud as their social platform of choice.

Understanding OStatus

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 16:26

One of the features I'm most excited about in the recent StatusNet 0.9.0 release is OStatus. OStatus is a protocol that lets people on different social networks follow each other.

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StatusNet 0.9.0 Released

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:38

I'm honored to be the one who gets to announce the release of StatusNet 0.9.0. This is the latest version of our software, and represents almost 8 months of hard work by the StatusNet developer community. It's available for immediate download from the status.net site.
This release includes the following new features:

StatusNet Inc Launches StatusNet Enterprise Network

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 11:38

Commercial support program for companies using Open Source microblogging tool

Montreal, Thursday, 25 February 2010 – StatusNet Inc, makers of the StatusNet Open Source microblogging server, launched the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN), their support program specifically tailored for corporate clients. Initial customers include Motorola Corporation and Canonical Ltd.

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Jobs at StatusNet Inc.

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 13:59

I wanted to draw attention to the fact that we have three positions we're hiring for here in Montreal.

AdBard on Identi.ca

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:21

I'm excited to say that we've launched support for the adbard.net network on Identi.ca today. Identi.ca users will notice relevant links to Free Software-related companies, events, projects and services in the sidebars on Identi.ca pages.

Identi.ca character limit results

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 17:13

Last week we started a poll to measure community will on the preferred character limit for identi.ca. We used a polling tool built into the Drupal system we use for this blog. We also used an ad hoc system, asking users to post on Identi.ca with tags like #limit140, #limit280, to indicate their preference.

POLL: Character Limit on Identi.ca

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 19:16

One of the features of the StatusNet software has been that notices are limited to 140 Unicode characters, which (usually...) fits into a single SMS message, and which is the character limit for Twitter tweets. Some users love the limitations that 140 characters entail. Others find it unnecessarily restricting.

Important security alert for all versions of StatusNet

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 14:58

This morning at 9AM we received notice of a security vulnerability in all versions of the StatusNet software. The StatusNet team has verified the vulnerability and identified a separate but similar vulnerability in another block of code. For these reasons, we've issued Security Alert 0000002 and made new versions of all three branches of our software available for download.