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0 StatusNet raises $875,000 seed round

Provider of Identi.ca microblogging service gets new seed funding for expansion

StatusNet, a startup focusing on online networks powered by...

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0 StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging

Montreal-based StatusNet, the company behind the open-source microblogging service identi.ca, is closing an $875,000 seed round today. Investors...

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0 Father of the Web Joins Twitter

Here’s my contribution for this Friday’s #followfriday: Tim Berners-Lee. Yes, the guy who pretty much invented the World Wide Web back in 1989 (has it...

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0 Open Microblogging Service Hires Former Creative Commons Strategist

An all-star team is forming at StatusNet, the open microblogging service for businesses and communities. The newest addition is Jon Phillips, former...

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0 Just 18 Hours Left to Buy Real-Time Web Summit Tickets At Current Prices

We're very excited to see that hundreds of you have already bought tickets to join us on Thursday for the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain...

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0 200 People Working on the Real-Time Web: RWW Summit Participants and Their Affiliations

We're in the final days leading up to the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit. People are coming from around the world to Mountain View, California this...

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0 Socialite Takes On Your Mac’s Social Media Life

Back in June, we published a round-up of desktop Twitter clients, with one of the Mac-only apps being EventBox, a multi-purpose Twitter, Facebook and...

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0 Ident Engine: Put Activity Streams on Your Site Easily

Most of us have profiles on a wide variety of services these days. Thankfully, most of these profiles are available in machine-readable microformats...

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0 Wikimedia CTO Departs for Open-Source Microblogging Startup

Brion Vibber, CTO of Wikimedia and lead developer for Wikipedia and MediaWiki, announced today that he's leaving the company to work for StatusNet...

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0 Twitpocalypse: "Open Source Twitter" proposed as antidote to Twitter's DDOS vulnerability

Twitter and Facebook were paralyzed this past week by DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks. As I understand it, those attacks are still...

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0 HOW TO: Update Facebook From Outside Facebook

Life moves pretty fast. Sometimes it moves so fast we just don’t have time to stop and maintain all of our social networks individually. But that’s no...

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0 Open Source 'Twitter' Network Could Prevent Next Twitpocalypse

Last week's Twitter failure proves that micro-blogging -- as much as people make fun of it -- is too important to be controlled by a single entity....

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0 Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday

It's hard to imagine anything more far out than the suggestion that the founders of Twitter be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, especially since the...

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0 Collecta: Summize Backer Launches Broader Real-Time Search

Gerry Campbell was one of the advising investors at Summize, the search engine Twitter acquired and now uses to power search on the site. He's led...

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0 US State Dept. Helping Twitter Stay Up For Iranians

With Twitter and Facebook playing such an important roll in getting information out of Iran this week, the last thing the world needs is an appearance...

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0 25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts

It may seem like an impossible task to keep up with all the Twitter apps that have come to market as of late. Even though you have plenty of...

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0 Find Out What’s Happening Right Now With Scoopler

Earlier today I wrote about the challenges Twitter search is facing in its quest to become a real competitor in the search game. Well, they’re not the...

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0 SiteRapture Adds Services to its Micro-blogging Category (Twitter Clones)

We have added more services to our micro-blogging / short URL services category (Twitter type services). The services currently listed are: CitySpeek...

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0 29 Twitter Apps for the iPhone Compared

Remember the days when we could count iPhone apps for Twitter on one hand? Well, those days are long gone, and if you’re having trouble keeping up...

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0 Microblogging Service Rejaw Shuts Down: A Victim of Twitter's Success?

Last summer, while Twitter was struggling to keep its servers running consistently, a number of rivaling microblogging services like Plurk and Rejaw...

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