Re: [BLUG] open-source twitter workalike

I think it's great to see open source alternatives to these types of web apps.  Services like twitter and facebook are immensely popular but I don't always like to have these communication tools locked down in a proprietary system.  Of course the main problem with the alternatives is that if none of your friends use them you still end up on twitter and/or facebook to be able to communicate with them. 

Ben

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Barry Schatz <sorbetninja@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are benefits of using something like Twitter?
>

You'd be surprised what you can get out of "crowd-sourcing."

> 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...
>

Depending on how you use it, it's a great communication tool. I don't
post what I'm eating for lunch or when I'm taking a poop, but I do try
to reply to people asking questions. You generally get out what you put in.

I mainly mentioned Identica because I heard a lot of people at the geek
dinner saying they use Twitter. I figured I should tell who I can about
open-source alternatives.

-Barry
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