Evan Prodromou's blog

StatusNet is a great platform for enterprise microblogging. Our biggest source of interest is from unhappy IT professionals who are frustrated with Yammer's user acquisition model and high fees. Today, we're happy to announce the launch of our Yammer import tool, to help organizations migrate their social networking data out of Yammer and into a platform they control.

This is the first in an irregular series of people I think are worth following using your StatusNet or other OStatus-enabled accounts. If you're using StatusNet, you can subscribe to these accounts by clicking the Remote + button under "Subscriptions" or by entering the "sub <account ID>" command.

I woke up this morning to news of the onMouseOver XSS attack that was running through Twitter at the time. Users of StatusNet should be happy to note that the bug does not seem to affect our software -- even for notices imported from Twitter. I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss security issues in a federation context.

A new release of our software, StatusNet 0.9.5, was made available today. It is a bugfix and minor feature release, and administrators should be able to upgrade in-place without serious disruption of their sites. (However, check the README for the latest update documentation.)

Along with the usual bug fixes and UI tweaks, important changes in this release include:

Last Sunday July 18th, in Portland, we met with 45 people from 30 different projects and companies working on the federated social web. It went great; I wanted to share some of my personal experience from the event, as well as my thoughts about future collaboration with the participants.