No secret that I love Identica. Most of the folks I want to follow are on Twitter. But Identica’s commitment to open standards is hot. So I use it religiously. I’m funny like that. So it’s nice to see that there’s lots of Identica/Laconica uptake in “my” community — the ICTD tribe. (Formerly known as the ICT4D tribe. Subject for another post.) Check out these local microblogging networks in Kenya and Nigeria. See? Identica facilitates appropriation. And all good technology shares this characteristic: People can figure out how to make it work for them. It’s hackable.
Groups is another awesome Identica feature. By placing an exclamation mark in front of a word you can make it part of a group. Example: Tonight I discovered !shortrecipes. Recipes in 140 characters or less. Do you need any other reason to love this app?
Oh… and I nearly forgot. Karl made this t-shirt. Made me laugh.
And think of that naughty Wii vs. PlayStation 3 video. Which, yes, I know is evil ;)
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Meant to ask you this before: how do you update identica and twitter at the same time? Is there an app that works with both?
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Go to Identica and click on “Connect” in the upper right-hand corner. Hmmm… as I’m looking at it now it seems to have changed. There used to be a tab there that you could add your Twitter account. Now I only see Facebook. Funny as it seems to still be working. Let me ask Evan.