twhirl adds support for identi.ca, but stops halfway

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

don’t get me wrong, it’s great that twhirl added support for identi.ca in their latest release pushed out tonight. at least it will make me use identi.ca more often. however twhirl missed an important point. which is: identi.ca ain’t a Twitter-clone, it’s a distributed Twitter-clone! so it just doesn’t make sense you can’t add any other laconica-servers than identi.ca to the twhirl client (I’ve made this amateurish mockup below, to make my point ;) ). but still, kudos to Marco Kaiser & seesmic, I’m pretty sure this will get ironed out rather soon…

update: having identi.ca in twhirl for few hours makes it so clear, that this should be an open, interoperable service…after a while you just forget weither you’re using Twitter or identi.ca…

The Social Web TV, Episode 1

Monday, July 14th, 2008

just watched the first episode of ‘The Social Web TV’ (discovered via Marc Canter, People Aggregator). hosted by David Recordon (sixapar), John McCrea & Joseph Smarr (both Plaxo), the show decodes the tech-lingo/buzzwords on current concepts of interoperability among social web-apps. the first episode features the ongoing facebook<>google-embargo, gnip, identi.ca etc. nice one!