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DreamHost offers Status.net as a 1-click install. Great step towards distributed micromessaging

by Tris Hussey on March 12, 2010 · 6 comments

in Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0

I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user but I have long argued that we need the equivalent of SMTP/POP for micromessaging as we have for email. I know Twitter is great and has a great ecosystem going, but it can’t last forever. Sure a lot of us have gmail addresses, but we can still send/receive email from people who are on gmail. Right now we don’t have that ability, really, with micromessaging/Twitter. It’s a closed box.
Early on in the whole micromessaging frenzy Status.net out of Montreal developed an open-source server for [...]

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All Hosts Suck, and All Hosts are Awesome

by Tris Hussey on February 8, 2010 · 1 comment

in Technology

Techcrunch was hacked recently. Probably not too unexpected as they are a pretty large and juicy target for any hacker. It seems, however, that the hacking incident motivated the Techcrunch team to pull up stakes and move over to WordPress/Automattic’s VIP Service:
Assuming I am right and Techcrunch has moved to Wordpress.com for hosting, it’s interesting how short of a time they were hosted on the Rackspace Cloud Sites service. I have pinged a couple of Rackspace employees and will update this story once I get any further details.
Update: I can [...]

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