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 [email protected] 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.comhttp://laconica.kclug.com/to
Micro.KCLUG.com http://micro.kclug.com/.
- The Email bot has changed from [email protected] to
Micro.KCLUG.com http://micro.kclug.com/
- The Jabber bot has changed from [email protected] to
- Your same logon still works, and the XX's in the
[email protected] 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
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