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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities

  • Rodney_Rumford · 1 year ago
    great post jesse. I have always maintained that identi.ca is a major threat to twitter. Your blog post only reinforces my opinion with more data that exposes what is really possibly. All we have to do is move 4 million users to identi.ca

    It could happen quite easily actually given some of what you posted here.

    Rodney Rumford
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Rodney, I agree - 4 million users really isn't that much if you just have 8 smaller networks with just 500,000 users each that all talk to each other. :-)
  • MarinaMartin · 1 year ago
    Great post, Jesse! I'm so excited by Laconi.ca and, even moreso, by how excited Laconi.ca is making others.

    Also, thanks for the "Oh, Identi.ca!" plug - since I'm not much of a programmer, I hope that I can contribute to the community via the blog in some way.
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Marina, it's now one of my favorite blogs - I love the tips and howtos you're giving there.
  • michaeltwofish · 1 year ago
    The OpenMicroBlogging specification is the protocol that Laconica implements. The specification was written by Evan, and he definitely seems open to other implementations of OMB. Ultimately, that's what will drive OMB forward and make it more interesting. I wrote about this not long after identi.ca launched, http://pastoid.com/3b+
  • Dewald Pretorius · 1 year ago
    Jesse,

    I was one of the very early adopters of Laconi.ca and have created http://wheremomschat.com using the software. Not a lot of activity on the site yet, but it's there ready to be used. :)

    Dewald
  • Jesse Stay · 1 year ago
    Dewald, just be patient and keep promoting it - it will happen if you do. I think people are still trying to figure out the whole "microblogging" thing. You should get one of the big mommy bloggers using it and they'll promote it for you :-)
  • Shey · 1 year ago
    I think with all the big players in the web 2.0 space, community branding of micro-communities becomes an important aspect to success. That's pretty much the same thing I said about Mixx: http://bit.ly/wfYoP