Evan Prodromou's blog

What is the federated social web?

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 15:15

On Sunday, July 18, 2010, StatusNet developers will be part of a federated social web summit. We'll work with other developers from other companies and Open Source projects to hammer out which technologies to use to let people on different social networks connect with each other as friends and colleagues. I'd like to take the opportunity to describe exactly what we mean by federated social web.

Evan Prodromou at Open Source Bridge

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 09:41

I'm in beautiful Portland, OR this morning for the awesome Open Source Bridge event. This is my second time at OSB. Last year's 4-day inaugural event was a really great community-organized conference about Free and Open Source software; I had a blast.

Evan Prodromou at Make Web Not War

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 08:50

I'll be speaking at Make Web Not War 2010 today. MWNW is a conference about cross-platform use of Free and Open Source Software developed primarily for the LAMP platform on Windows-based Web servers.

We've been working hard to make StatusNet work well on Windows servers. If we can engage developers and sysadmins who are used to Microsoft platforms, we can expand the market for our commercial products, and grow the community for our project.

TweetDeck supports StatusNet

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 11:45

I was happy to see that the new version of TweetDeck supports alternate API endpoints. That means that StatusNet users can use TweetDeck as their primary desktop system, or use TweetDeck as part of a multi-service approach.

To set up TweetDeck with StatusNet, follow these simple steps:

On the future of the Twitter API

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 18:29

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic (the WordPress folks) had some dim judgements on the future of the Twitter API outside of Twitter. I wanted to take the opportunity to give a quick update on the future of the Twitter API at StatusNet. What we're doing, and how it's going forward.

Evan Prodromou talks about StatusNet with Robert Scoble

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 10:26

I was lucky enough to do an interview with Robert Scoble for Building 43 on opening up microblogging. I think it went pretty well; I definitely had fun with it!

"Shit My Dad Says" on the StatusNet Cloud

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 15:00

Montreal, Tuesday 6 April 2010 – StatusNet Inc announced the launch of Shit My Dad Says website (http://shitmydadsays.com/) running on the StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS). Justin Halpern, author of the popular microblog, now shares outrageous quotes from his 74-year-old father with millions of followers through his new, dedicated broadcasting platform.

nofollow on the StatusNet Cloud

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 14:45

Today we rolled out code on the StatusNet Cloud to set the "nofollow" relationship for certain links on public sites. I wanted to take a few minutes to describe what this will do, why we did it, and what users can expect.

StatusNet Launches Cutting-edge Location Service

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Thu, 04/01/2010 - 11:28

New site mixes the best of Foursquare and Gowalla

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StatusNet 0.9.1 released

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Sun, 03/28/2010 - 13:54

A few weeks after the release of version 0.9.0 of StatusNet, we've packaged together bug fixes and minor feature enhancements and packaged them as StatusNet 0.9.1 (codename: "Everybody Hurts"). The software is available for download immediately.