long story short, I give the invite to the first five comments.
Genuine e-mail needed.
Another Twitter clone? Yes…
An ordinary one? No, not at all.
So everyone knows what twitter does, so I’m not much getting into the similarities, but rather write about the differences. So what makes identi.ca different from twitter, jaiku pownce and all the others?
First of all the software itself is free open source software released under the AGPL, it’s called Laconica, just check out the site, right now it’s still pretty empty only pointing to the source.
“Only”, well that’s already more than what the other microblogging services will ever let you see.
Other things worth mentioning in my opinion are:
- OpenID support, you can login with you OpenID after you enabled it in your Account settings.
- Posting via Jabber, nothing new nor special, but I like Jabber therefore I mention it.
- There’s a checkbox on the registration page allowing you too license all your posts under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Now that is awesome.
- It’s an Open Network Service, using the Free/Open Service Definition
Let’s see what they write about:
Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main
goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In
particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available
under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.
Open Data, yeah, it’s open and it’s free (like in freedom) but it also does protects your rights as the author of what you wrote. Not only does it protect you from other users, but it does protects you from the service itself.
If you’re interested in freedom, just pay identi.ca a visit and add me if you like, here’s my account. It lacks some polish and not all features are implemented yet, but I’m sure the community will help making this site a success.
Here is what’s coming next
- SMS updates and notifications
- A Twitter-compatible API
- More AJAX-y interface
- Maps
- Cross-post to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
- Pull messages from Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
- Facebook integration
- Hashtags
- Image, video, audio notices
- Automatic url-shortening
- Multilingual interface (using Gettext)
I made some Screenshots and put them on Picasa, you might want to take a look at.
 |
| identica |
Cashy of stadt-bremerhaven.de released a *.dll file fixing the problem.
Here’s my mirror: http://files.ainotenshi.org/liboscar.dll
All you have to do to apply the fix is to put that file into your main pidgin folder, replacing the old one.
EDIT: This fix isn’t neccesary any more. The Pidgin Project released a new version of their popular client.
“What’s this?”, you might ask. It’s my twitter profile…
I’ve been encountering serious problems with twitter for a while now, but this makes all other problems seem small. It’s like the worst thing that could happen.
I wrote a support ticket, and all I can do is wait. I really hope they can fix it.
In Tokyo the Joshi Gakue, an all-girls school, teachers started using DS handhelds in class to help the girls learning English. The DS is only used in class though. They’re nor allowed to take it home with them.
Is this really a good thing to do? I’d say yes, it is. The DS offers really intuitive controls, a good display, ok sound and what’s probably the best about it: It’s cheaper than a pc and easier to store because of it’s small size.
Japan’s educatin ministry allows schools to decide what tools, materials, books or gaming consoles they use, and according to PISA tests the Japanese schools are doing well pretty well in international comparison, ranking among the top 5 in almost every field.
Here’s the whole article where I got that story from:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/30/ds_used_in_school/
First of all, thank you Rick for this great plugin.
I started by adding some lines to the rss-stream.php
298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 | function rss_stream_picasa($feed = '') { global $lifestream; $picasa = fetch_rss($feed); if ($feed != '') { foreach ( $picasa->items as $status ) { $title = $status['title']; $date = strtotime($status['pubdate']); $link = htmlspecialchars($status['link']); $msg = '<a class="picasa-link" href="'.$link.'">'.$title.'</a>'; $lifestream[$date]['date'] = $date; $lifestream[$date]['type'] = 'picasa'; $lifestream[$date]['link'] = $link; $lifestream[$date]['msg'] = $msg; } } } |
378 | if(get_option('RSS_Stream_picasafeed')!='') { rss_stream_picasa(get_option('RSS_Stream_picasafeed')); } |
397 | || get_option('RSS_Stream_picasafeed')!='' |
494 495 | $option_RSS_Stream_picasafeed = $_POST['RSS_Stream_picasafeed']; update_option('RSS_Stream_picasafeed', $option_RSS_Stream_picasafeed); |
692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 | <fieldset class="options"> <legend>Picasa</legend> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <strong><label for="RSS_Stream_picasafeed">:</label></strong></td> <td> <input id="RSS_Stream_picasafeed" name="RSS_Stream_picasafeed" size="75" type="text" value="<?php echo get_option('RSS_Stream_picasafeed'); ?>" /></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </fieldset> |
Thereafter I added this line to the rss-stream.css
8 | .RSSS_picasa{ background: #e4f1e6; color: #555; } |
To get an icon to match picasa, I took picasa’s favicon. So I deserve no credit for that, and it’s a trademark of Google, inc..
You can grab the icon here
Just put it into the images folder of RSS Stream
today, and yesterday I was working on some tweaks of the page’s design which just got live. The header got a changed a bit, page background now is #333.
Most obvious change though, is of course the increased width.
I added another sidebar, which right now only contains a lifestream powered by the rss stream plugin for wordpress.
I only changed it’s css, obviously, and I added Picasa support myself - for what I had to write some php code. I hate php 
Now the only thing that bothers me is that I can’t add my twitter to it, as my twitter account turned into one huge bug today. My personal page for example isn’t accessible for instance.
I opened a ticket, and wrote on get satisfaction. I hope this is going to be resolved soon.
Researchers are predicting that one quarter of the world’s population will be online by 2012.
Most growth is, as you might already have guessed, to take place in the emerging regions of Asia, like China and India.
This figure is stunning if