Identi.ca
Identi.ca (launched 2008) is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. It uses the software StatusNet (licence: Affero GPLv3+).
Some advantages to use identi.ca are:
- all notices are published with Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
- better view of replies (example: identi.ca, click hell at twitter: [1])
- one can forward messages also to twitter
- FOAF (Friend of a friend) support: a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects. example: [2]
- when you install your own StatusNet instance you have control over your data (e.g. you decide with whom to share or not, ...) + can connect with other network systems (e.g. twitter, ...) via federation
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Wikiversity related info on identi.ca
[edit | edit source]- tag #wikiversity: you can generate these when you add in your message #wikiversity
- group !wikiversity: you can post here when you add in your message !wikiversity
some Wikiversity users who use identi.ca
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- Cary Bass
- Leigh Blackall
- Laura Hale
- Pieter Jansegers
- Samuel Klein
- Cormac Lawler
- James Neill
- Nils Simon
- Erkan Yilmaz
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