Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that’s not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a ‘WordPress for microblogs’. That is to say, they make a platform that others can easily download and install to their own servers. And today they’re showing off the next major step in their platform: a hosted solution for those who don’t want to bother with managing their own install, which will be hosted on status.net.
In effect, Status.Net is to the StatusNet platform as WordPress.com is to WordPress. Status.Net will offer a free package for very basic use, and will then offer a number of premium packages that give access to premium features. We first heard about the upcoming product last month when StatusNet raised $875,000, but until now they haven’t introduced the platform to the public.
Status.Net remains in private beta for now, but we’ll let you know when it’s available to the public. Also worth pointing out is that Status.Net is launching a new real-time search feature powered by Collecta powered by that company’s recently-released Site Search platform.
They should have atleast added few demo videos for newbies.. I landed into their website see few texts but again miss any demo video..or may be this website is for pro…
@themepremium if you want to it in action just choose any server that is running the code.
Biggest server is identi.ca
.net? Really? Everyone knows using .net only drives more traffic to the .com extension.
tell slickdeals that
Love WP but dieing for something lightweight and more nimble. Default WP install is pushing 1000 files.
Looks pretty cool – I wonder what sort of price range they are thinking for premium users? I find it hard to believe with all the alternatives available that people would be willing to pay much.
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