StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta)

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Mar 9, 2010

Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.

You can think about StatusNet as the WordPress of microblogging. StatusNet is open-source software which can either be downloaded and run on your own enterprise servers or now on StatusNet’s hosted servers. Basic service is free, with plans to charge for premium levels down the line. The premium versions will be ad-free, support unlimited users, larger file sizes, your own domain and design, Facebook and Twitter integration, and XMPP feeds.

CEO Evan Prodromou describes the various ways StatusNet can be used: as an open-source microblogging server akin to WordPress, as the basis for an online community “(ning.com for microblogging); for enterprise (Open Source Yammer), or for a single user to own their social media presence (your own ping.fm).” One of the cooler features of StatusNet is OStatus, which lets you follow people on different social networks all from within your hosted microblogging enevironment.

The largest site hosted on StatusNet is the company’s own identi.ca, but StatusNet will also be hosting microblogging sites for ~~ABC News~~, Shit My Dad Says (not live yet at the time of this posting), the Twit Army, Kirsty Ally’s weight loss community Phitter, Germany’s Bleeper, and Today’s Mama. All together, there are more than 1 million registered users across all 10,000 StatusNet sites.

Shit My Dad Says has 1.2 million followers on Twitter and a TV pilot in the works starring William Shatner. He will use StatusNet to push his updates to Twitter while controlling the advertising. ~~ABC News plans to use StatusNet as a central dashboard to push out its headlines and updates to different social networks.~~ Update: Apparently, ABC News changed its mind and won’t be using the service now.

StausNet is based in Montreal and raised $1 million in seed capital last year.

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http://www.kryptiva.com Karim Yaghmour

Congrats to StatusNet. Keep it up guys.
http://www.1milijonas.lt FakeLondoner

At least now it looks too weak and worst style twitter I have ever seen. I don’t think it could be successful.
Brian Field

Don’t forget http://www.twatter.com …he he…
http://danpatterson.wordpress.com Dan Patterson

Hey Eric – I’m in charge of digital platform development for ABC News Radio.

I’d like to make it clear that I don’t speak on behalf of ABC and that I’ll always defer to my bosses and our S&P for guidance. But I did want to leave a comment to clear the air.

I’ve been working directly with StatusNet for several months as a possible tool for @ABCNewsRadio and our affiliates.

While I am excited by many of our partners and projects – including StatusNet – this announcement is VERY premature. We have agreed to and signed nothing and were unaware that we were being mentioned publicly by StatusNet.

I know Evan and his gang are working hard to build a great tool and have only the best of intentions. But ABC’s involvement with StatusNet is anything but official.

On a personal note, I’m a geek and of the geek world. I love seeing media companies move in to the social media world. We’ll continue to work with companies like StatusNet and are very excited about the digital product we’re building.

Feel free to contact me any time http://dhp.me/contact.

Thanks!

Dan Patterson
Digital Platform Manager
ABC News Radio
http://ultimategerardm,blogspot.com GerardM

The Status.net software is currently fully localised in eight languages and 17 languages are better then halfway done. 58 languages are localised at http://translatewiki.net

You are welcome to help localise for your language :)
Thanks,
GerardM
http://evan.status.net/ Evan Prodromou

Dan, Erick,

It was a gross mistake on my part to talk about the abcnewsradio site before it was approved and launched.

I apologize to you both.

-Evan
jimjerky

It’s rookie mistakes like this that can KILL a company. Holy Yikes!
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Erick Schonfeld

Dan, I hope you reconsider and judge StatusNet on its merits, not based on anything I reported.
sagar

Ha Ha. from an english perspective, Twatter should be focusing on a completel different market, because in ole blighty, the word twat refers to a ladies bush, not kernels
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http://danpatterson.com Dan Patterson

Evan and I had a very good conversation earlier today.

I always judge our partners, other companies, and other reporters by their merits ;)

Thanks guys. Feel free to ring should you need anything.

- DHP
http://identi.ca/aem76us/all Anthony Mitchell

It is the speed of feature roll-out on Status.net that helps make it a more comfortable microblog client than anything I’ve seen for Twitter yet.

I like the ability to view other users’ incoming streams, as those other users would. The auto-refresh and groups features on Status.net are good too.

The ability of an administrator to set user policies and ban spammers and other inappropriate types of users makes Status.net an ideal tool for organizations. But the killer feature is federation, whereby users will be able to exchange micro-blog messages with other people, regardless of which platform they are on.

Email was initially not federated. An AOL user could only send emails to someone else within AOL’s walled garden. Status.net is bringing those walls down for microblogging.
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God forbid if this guy’s dad ever kicks the bucket, the gravy train is going to run dry.
http://danpatterson.wordpress.com Dan Patterson

Also, for the record, this is inaccurate:

“Update: Apparently, ABC News changed its mind and won’t be using the service now.”

As I said earlier, we’re in a discussion phase with StatusNet. I like their product and am sure that once they’re out of beta it’ll be a heckuva service. We simply haven’t changed our mind about anything. We simply are in a discussion phase and have not signed any deals or come to any agreement.

As a professional journalist I do everything in my power to source my stories and make sure they are as accurate as possible prior to publication. Any time you’d like to chat, Erick, feel free to pick up the phone.
Philippe

I’ve only met Evan a few times, but what I can say is that he is a genuine entrepreneur full of smarts, integrity, and a track record of success. Best of luck to the status.net team!
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http://ontapblog.com/ Antoony

It seems that it can grow big and compete other microblogging platforms.
http://www.mysharedcookbook.com/ Ann Krebber

I am glad that there will be more option to microblogging. Congratz for StatusNet. Keep on working guys.
http://10affordablehealthinsurance.com/ Andy Lie

I really never heard about status.net before. But, I find mozilla corp and motorola has been using status.net. Is it really like twitter? Because I do not get a clear info at their home page.