For most of this evening I have been watching an amazing event. It is totally fascinating to watch a group of what should be intelligent and well educated folks suddenly become drooling masses of quivering jelly like substance. It was like they had been locked in a room without any way to regenerate their failing levels of social interaction. Then with a simple whisper the floodgates seem to open up and the emotions came rushing to the surface.
Why did this happen?
What was the momentous event that rocked their world to such a degree?
What was it that happened that rejuvenated their incredible power of prose?
It was something so incredibly simple that it will amaze you. It was the birth of the world’s very first open source Twitter clone that was lovingly named identi.ca by it’s proud parent.
You think I’m joking? I would never joke about something as incredibly important as this momentous event. After all this is Dave Winer’s wet dream come true and that alone should be enough to prompt another peyote induced post by Steve Gillmor – that is as soon as we can get him to come out of his corner.
Yes folks – it is true. We are now the proud owners of a brand new clone of the Fail Whale we love to hate … or is that hate to love … I never seem to get that straight. Anyway rather than continue this orgasmic hyperbole over this newest shiny toy I’ll just point you to those that are truly thrilled to their early adopter bones over this addition to our social media world. Okay so not all of this effusive expressions of amazement is as breathless as you might expect but you’ll get the idea …
Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips [nw] :: Sarah in Tampa
Twitter refugees find a new home (at least for this week): Identi.ca [nw] :: VentureBeat
Could Identi.ca be a Fail Whale Killer? [nw] :: Inquisitr
Identi.ca: The Force Is Strong With This One (But is no Jedi, Yet) [nw] :: Mashable
Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away [nw] :: SheGeeks
Identi.ca: Twitter Alternative [nw] :: webomatica
Identi.ca proves me wrong, and I’m happy about it [nw] :: Duncan Riley
All this fuss over a half baked not yet ready for prime time web service – amazing .. just amazing.
Kwippy and I am not using the Twitter killer analogy
Twitter: The better social media communication platform than Facebook
hey Hodson…
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ummm
“my aren't those flowers such pretty colors”?
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So nice of you to clean up Dave Winer's wet dream so we don't have to. Fully agreed. We have a room now for normal conversations on F http://friendfeed.com/rooms/normal-conversation
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hey Hodson…
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I think you meant “The web is a poetic visualization of our latent desires. Twitter's failure rate is exorbitantly disturbing. The process of cloning and the science behind it rends society asunder with its ethical quandries. At last a service has been bestowed unto us to facilitiate communications and non-telepathic exchanges.”
You also didn't include my reality-based response. I swear we are like magpies going from one shiny thing to the next and winding up with a nest full of junk.
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Oh, like you weren't over there the second it launched.
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wait until you get the bill
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Sorry Cyndy … I'll make sure to double check with ya the next time
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Never said I wasn't
in fact I have said in several places that I did indeed head over there to grab an account and make sure my username didn't get snagged because as snarky as my post might have been I think this one might have legs
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damn skippy
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The open source will be the decider IMHO – what people do with it that is. I can see a lot of servers running something like it – or maybe some services that pop out of the code – I dunno but being open source anything is possible. But I think it is what sets it a part in many respects and why it might get there in some shape or form. As far as a micro blogging service, same same. I am playing the wait and see thing now.
I am using FriendFeed a hell of a lot more. I hate Plurk – the interface is awful. twitter are yet to get their shit together… all bets are off for the moment I think.
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wait until you get the bill
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damn skippy
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The open source will be the decider IMHO – what people do with it that is. I can see a lot of servers running something like it – or maybe some services that pop out of the code – I dunno but being open source anything is possible. But I think it is what sets it a part in many respects and why it might get there in some shape or form. As far as a micro blogging service, same same. I am playing the wait and see thing now.
I am using FriendFeed a hell of a lot more. I hate Plurk – the interface is awful. twitter are yet to get their shit together… all bets are off for the moment I think.
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[...] http://www.winextra.com/2008/07/03/omg-look-out-everyone-its-a-twitter-clone-omg/ http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2008/07/02/identica-early-adopter-tips.html http://mashable.com/2008/07/02/identica/ http://www.inquisitr.com/1424/could-identica-be-a-fail-whale-killer/ http://shegeeks.net/identica-apps-why-it-could-blow-twitter-away/ [...]
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I'm thinking big picture here. It's almost a proof of concept. Like the first POP server at Urbana-Champange. A “wow look, it works… now you try”, that's what excites me. I think this is the next, and inevitable, step in the evolution of microblogging as a communications tool.
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I'm thinking big picture here. It's almost a proof of concept. Like the first POP server at Urbana-Champange. A “wow look, it works… now you try”, that's what excites me. I think this is the next, and inevitable, step in the evolution of microblogging as a communications tool.
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Heh-don't want to think about that one.
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Heh-don't want to think about that one.
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Haven't tried Identi.ca yet…
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Haven't tried Identi.ca yet…
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