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 […]

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 […]

Inutile sottolineare quanto, mai come in questo periodo, il social networking stia imperversando. Sembra non ci sia applicativo che non stia considerando estensioni verso il social networking, e si vedono atterrare esperimenti bizzarri quale l’integrazione di estensioni sociali nel motore di MediaWiki, oppure l’atteso BuddyPress che trasformerà un’installazione di WordPress in un social network.

E’ importante […]