StatusNet embraces Open Microbloging

Never a huge fan of the defacto standard microblog Twitter because the community was so centralized, when it really didn't have to be. It felt like the early days of AOL and Compuserve. The Internet is distributed and decentralised and this application is clearly not. With the reliability issues that Twitter was was having, something was bound to happen. Enter Laconica/StatusNet - distributed open microblogging. Still in development but it gives you the opportunity to run your own community and subscribe to others on other servers.

The Virtual Drive has registered the domain name vdrive.ca and has started a new StatusNet server. Also check out the new site which is our new tech blog location that is under test.

To learn more about microblogging check out Wikipedia.