A new microblogging service has been launched yesterday, called identi.ca.

It is almost a Twitter clone, but the source code of the platform running the service, laconica, is open source and contents are copyright by the contributors and available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. It implements OpenID and is heavily based on XMPP, which should ease up […]

Those who follow me on Twitter may have already known that some exciting news about OpenSpime were going to come out today.

So here it goes! I am happy to announce the launch today of:

• the OpenSpime Developer Network;
• the OpenSpime protocol website;
• PyOpenSpime, the first OpenSpime library written in Python.

Curious? Here’s a technical video introduction to OpenSpime.

See you […]

Food for thought.

Two days ago FeedBurner has enabled its users to include AdSense in their feeds. Yep, you read it right, not only in the post themselves, but in the feeds too.

Seems a logical evolution to do, since often feed readers do not visit their authors’ websites. But somehow:

• feeds were born to ease the gathering and reading […]

A lot has already been written on the recent SKY’s event in Rome, “Al Gore meets the bloggers“, where the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has introduced to Italian bloggers his concept and visions regarding his latest project, Current Tv.

I was particularly interested in repeatedly hearing Al’s promise for Current Tv’s independence from any private or […]

Sometimes I just let myself go to simple pleasures in life. Check out the first ever OpenSpime Twitter authenticated message ;) More to come.

Interested? Follow us on the OpenSpime Developer Network!

Ping.fm allows you to instantly publish a single message to various services you might be subscribed to: Bebo, Blogger, Facebook, hi5, Jaiku, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MySpace, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, with WordPress soon coming.

To do so, you may use the web interface on the Ping website, send an email to a Ping […]

I’ve recently been looking for a set of detailed instructions on how to proceed in order to have a working ejabberd 2.0.0 server on a Ubuntu server box, that would in addition use PostgreSQL to store its data instead of the native Mnesia database which is provided by default. However, I could not find […]

In these days I am particularly busy in finding out what is really available as Open Source platforms in a variety of application fields.

The economics behind Open Source are always particularly intriguing, and I am unceasingly interested into digging why particular projects are financed, others abandoned even though they were successful, some others passed over […]

What a great way to end the day, yesterday.

Activist, entrepreneur, and venture capital investor Joi Ito has accepted our invitation to the OpenSpime BoA. Joi’s unique experience in complex planetary initiatives, policy bodies, and portfolio of investments make him an invaluable mentor and advisor.

We are extremely glad that he accepted […]