I’m excited. Identi.ca is a Canadian micro blogging solution gaining momentum. Recently, Identi.ca gained support on Twhirl and Friendfeed. This is good news and makes the service much more usable and friendly to your other social networks.
The following is why I like Identi.ca:
Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used for Identi.ca is Free Software, and all the data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, making it Open Data.
The software also implements the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that you can have friends on other microblogging services that can receive your notices.
The goal here is autonomy — you deserve the right to manage your own on-line presence. If you don’t like how Identi.ca works, you can take your data and the source code and set up your own server (or move your account to another one).
I successfully set up Identi.ca on Twhirl this afternoon after following the instructions here on the Twhirl blog. The main step I made up myself was that I downloaded Pidgin to use with my GTalk account as my Jabber account. This way I could easily add [update at identi dot ca] as a buddy to complete the verification process.
I missed Pidgin and will probably use it into the future once again. Previously, I used it with Ubuntu for MSN, Yahoo, GTalk and any IRC rooms simultaneously.
Hey, I’m really glad the service is working out for you. Let me know if you need anything.