#ControlYourself.Inc =
a Quebec corporation headquartered in Montreal. providing identi.ca and status.net and lead development for Laconica / StatusNet "We make Open Network Services - sites that use Open Source software to create and distribute Open Content."
#Laconica =
Open Source Software - Twitter alternative - published 2008. Coinciding with the release of version 0.8.1 in August 2009 the Software was renamed in to "StatusNet"#StatusNet =
Open Source
Software - Twitter alternative, formerly known as "Laconica"
#status.net =
microblogging
hosting service, from Control Yourself, Inc. started July 2009. technical provided by www.joyent.com
"status.net is a new microblogging service that lets anyone set up their own microblogging site, based on Laconica’s functionality. Clients can make private microblogging networks for use by a company or community, or public ones that interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other Laconica-based sites. Control Yourself is accepting applications from enterprises, marketing and publishing organizations, and Web communities to participate in their beta program for the platform they call “status-as-a-service.”
#identi.ca =
microblogging
platform launched July 2, 2008 by Control Yourself, Inc. running
Laconica/
Statusnet "Users can post short messages about themselves to Identi.ca, which are then broadcast to friends in their social network using instant messages (IM), RSS feeds, and the Web."
#OStatus =
protocol - standard for federated microblogging. A suite of open
protocols, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger.
"OStatus enables different microblogging server implementations to route status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time. OStatus federation was first possible between Laconica/StatusNet installations, such as Status.net and Identi.ca"
#Pump.io =
protocol - general-purpose activity streams engine that can be used as a federated social networking protocol - successor of OStatus. Identi.ca, which was the largest StatusNet service, switched to pump.io in June 2013
#Joyent =
Cloud Computing vendor of ‘Infrastructure as a Service’
#EvanProdromou =
WebDeveloper and CEO of
Control Yourself, Inc. and
status.net
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