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Laconica - a micro-blogging tool
What is laconica? It's an open source micro blogging platform. Here's an example of it in action: Smallpicture. My account is here.
Do we need another Twitter? No but, It's definitely useful to have the ability to implement micro blogging elsewhere. For example, say you have a client with an existing website. You suggest that community driven features would be a value add. Do you want to write a micro blogging tool yourself?
I'd love to hear about your experiences with social networks, building community and implementing social tools.
Later - Laconica uses PHP and MySQL. I explored here: http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Source and downloaded the source and read the readme. Nice!Comment
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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