Infinitely Meta » php http://blog.infinitelymeta.com The possibilities are endless. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:11:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Check out Identi.ca. Open Source Twitter Clone http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/2008/07/check-out-identica-open-source-twitter-clone/ http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/2008/07/check-out-identica-open-source-twitter-clone/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:51:57 +0000 Brian Daniel Eisenberg http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/?p=22 A couple hours ago Marshall Kirkpatrick over at RWW posted about Identi.ca, a new open source Twitter clone. Check it out here: http://identi.ca.

My profile is here: http://identi.ca/infinitelymeta

A few first impressions:

  1. Logged in for first time using OpenID. Worked great. Then had to create "local" account to get new profile/handle, etc setup.
  2. Adding friends is pretty easy. Basic search and follow.
  3. Timeline - posts up to 140 characters. View Personal timeline and Everyone timeline.
  4. RSS - Dave Winer says it sucks. Add /rss to any url and you supposedly get RSS.
  5. XMPP - I'm just setting this up now. Will see how well it works.
  6. UPDATED: URLs - No auto-tiny URL (yet). I sent @evan a feature request.

I also downloaded the source code here and am actively picking through it to see how well written it is. Would be great if this were the start to a framework for a microblogging socnet platform that can scale. I could really use such a framework right now for one of my "engines".

That is all.

UPDATE: There is a "Coming Soon" FAQ here: http://identi.ca/doc/faq

UPDATE #2: Some now thinking it can't scale due to sql table / schema design. http://identi.ca/notice/4085

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