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micromessaging

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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It’s not about a service, it’s about messaging

by Tris Hussey on April 28, 2009 · 1 comment

in Internet Life, Social Media, Web 2.0

Oh Twitter. You can’t seem to catch a break can you?
Why aren’t you making money?
Why are you so unstable?
Why can’t you be like your older brother Facebook, he’s got a business model?
And now, why don’t users stick with you for more than a month?
When MySpace and Facebook were at the stage that Twitter is at today, their retention rates were, according to Nielsen, twice as high – and they’ve now stabilized at nearly 70 percent. Twitter’s high rate of churn will, if it continues, hamstring the service’s growth, says Nielsen’s [...]

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