KCLUG Microblog

[Greg Mischel Smith]

If your wanting to check for new posts using your iPhone or iPod Touch, you
can add the hostname:
micro.kclug.com/api
to any of the application programs that support the laconica network. I use
Nambu on my iTouch and it seems to work well.

GregMS

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:

> The KCLUG Microblog just got a major upgrade to version 0.7.1, a
> facelift, and a shiny new host at Linode, a Free Software Day 2008
> sponsor.
>
> Features:
>  - Send and receive notices using any XMPP/Jabber Client.
>  - Send and receive notices from your email client or cell phone.
>  - Send and receive private messages between users.
>  - No sign up required.  Bring your OpenID and pick a nickname.
>  - If you have a GMail account, or a Yubikey, you already have OpenID.
>  - Cleaner, less noisy interface.
>  - Automatically echo your posts to twitter if you have a twitter account.
>  - Implements twitter API so twitter clients should work with it.
>  - Subscribe to people on OTHER SITES and vice versa.  Federated
> network.  No single point of failure.
>  - Export your posts and social network data at any time.  No lock-in.
>  - Start, join, or subscribe to groups of like-minded people.
>  - Subscribe to all, just a group, or just a person with your RSS reader.
>  - Instantly keep in touch with all other Members.
>  - Client software available for most smart phones and OSes.
>  - IPv6 accessible.  (I wonder if that will ever be used.)
>  - All Creative Commons 3.0 content, and AGPL 3.0 software.
>
> Why Microblog?:
>  - Heck if I know, but people seem to like it.
>  - Share how lunch tasted, or what you just stepped in.
>  - Annoy your friends in 140 characters or less!
>
> What existing users should know:
>  - The URL has changed from Laconica.KCLUG.com<http://laconica.kclug.com/>to
> Micro.KCLUG.com <http://micro.kclug.com/>.
>  - The Email bot has changed from Bot at Laconica.KCLUG.com to
> Micro.KCLUG.com <http://micro.kclug.com/>
>  - The Jabber bot has changed from Bot at Laconica.KCLUG.com to
> Micro at KCLUG.com
>  - Your same logon still works, and the XX's in the
> XXXXXXXXXXX at KCLUG.com of your private posting alias have not changed.
>  - Your profile data should have transferred over correctly, but there
> are now more fields to fill out if you choose.
>  - Groups are a new feature.
>  - These changes were made so you can save some keystrokes on your
> mobile devices.
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