Thursday, January 15, 2009

Re: [BLUG] open-source twitter workalike

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:19:17PM -0500, Barry Schatz wrote:
> The creator of Laconica also wrote up the Open Microblogging
> specification, so you can write your own implementation in a different
> language if you like. I know there's already one implementation using a
> microsoft stack, but I haven't heard much about it. There are Laconica
> installations at http://army.twit.tv/ and http://linuxoutlaws.net/. Fog
> Creek uses Laconica internally because they want the benefits of Twitter
> for business use without sending sensitive information out to a third
> party.

There are benefits of using something like Twitter?

I thought it simply existed to distract people from the fact that
they don't really have a life and that they're generally miserable.
Wait, it sounds like it is ideal for business purposes now that I
think about it...

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