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We had told you in previous blog posts that we were working hard to prepare for some important releases, and this past week proves that we were not fooling! From a new look on our homepage, including an "Introduction to StatusNet" video, to a new beta service for RSS feeds, to the latest mobile beta, this week has been full of releases, and they will not stop here!

Latest updates

Check out the StatusNet website and you will find a StatusNet video on our homepage! It is informational and fun! There is also a blog post on the Introduction to StatusNet Video on our website.

There is a new service to post RSS feeds to StatusNet and it is in Beta called dlvr.it. The service is similar to Twitterfeed but it is more feature-rich and has direct posting to StatusNet, among other social streams.

For all you mobile microbloggers, StatusNet Mobile beta 4 is now available for Android and iPhone. Check it out and tell us what you think!

Lastly, there have been some recent changes to the licenses for the StatusNet themes. It might be worth checking to see what they are!

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

In "OStatus Interview with James Walker", the latest interview of a series of OStatus interviews, James Walker of StatusNet talks about how StatusNet uses OStatus and what role he played in the creation of OStatus. Head over to OStatus for more details!

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our press section.

Upcoming Events

The PodCamp Montreal event will be taking place this weekend, September 16th and 17th. StatusNet is one of their bronze sponsors, and as such, Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet) will be attending.

Reminders

Are you implementing OStatus, an open standard for distributed status updates? If you are and you would like to answer a few questions on OStatus and how you are implementing it, please contact me by email at dderouin@status.net.

Also, we would really like to hear your thoughts and we value your contributions and so feel free to add community news now for next week's post on our public wiki.

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4!

Today we put a nice Introduction to StatusNet video on the main page of StatusNet. We are always striving to better explain why StatusNet is great for you, your projects and your business, from indy to enterprise. We had the help of StatusHero Robert Martinez (known as @mray) whom created the video and Pete Ippel (@hypermodern) whom made the voiceover. And, because we believe in web standards and working working towards them as with OStatus, we are putting this video out using the html5 video tag. We hope in the future that more browsers will support open web video. If you can't play the video please try downloading the source files, or if you believe the video should play in your browser, please file a report in our issue tracker.

Let us know what you think of the video! It is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licensed and we hope that more people will create videos to explain StatusNet, how they are using the software and service. If you do, we have created a wiki page for sharing source files and your creations: http://status.net/wiki/Video And, if you create a video that is great, I'll personally send you a nice new StatusNet t-shirt, some stickers and we'll let the world know how you are great!

StatusNet has been hacking away this past week on the StatusNet mobile client to bring you the ultimate in mobile social messaging! 

Latest updates

The StatusNet mobile Beta 3 is now available for the iPhone and the Android. Come try it out and tell us what you think!

Also, the OStatus 1.0 Draft 2 specification has been released. It includes an explicit copyright and patent license under the OWFa agreement. Head over to ostatus.org and check out Evan Prodromou's latest post entitled OStatus 1.0 Draft 2 Available under OWFa.

Upcoming Events

Jon Phillips (Community Director for StatusNet) will be speaking about microblogging software and free network services at the International Conference On Open Source (iCOS) on September the 18th. iCOS will be taking place from September 17th until the 19th. More details will be released as the conference approaches.

Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet) announced today that he will be speaking at TWTRCON SF10, which will be taking place November the 18th in San Francisco. Stay tuned for more details as the conference approaches.

Reminders

Are you implementing OStatus, an open standard for distributed status updates? If you are and you would like to answer a few questions on OStatus and how you are implementing it, please contact me by email at dderouin@status.net.

Also, we would really like to hear your thoughts and we value your contributions and so feel free to add community news now for next week's post on our public wiki.

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4!

Hello All,
Tonight,  at 12:30am EDT we'll be performing some breif site maintenance on the StatusNet Cloud Service. It is likely that users will see slow response times from the server, or even disconnects while the maintenance is under way.  The serivce will be completed in roughly 15 minutes and performance should be restored to standard (and likely see some improvement as a result of the changes) by no later than Tuesday, 31 August at 1:00 am EDT.

While we work hard to make every update as seamless as possible and we do not anticipate any issues with this upgrade, if you *do* experience difficulty after the upgrade, we're eager to find out about those issues and correct them as quickly as possible. The best method for getting support with any StatusNet related issues is to post to our support forum, forum.status.net, or any of our other methods of support channels listed here.

Thanks again for all of your support and encouragement,
Nate

StatusNet has been laying low this past week, hacking away at different projects including the StatusNet mobile version!

Latest updates

Testing of the mobile version of StatusNet's client software is now available for Android and iPhone devices. We encourage you to test it out and let us know what you think!

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

In an article by Jared Spurbeck, Status.Net And Identi.Ca: Open-Source Alternatives to Twitter, Jared highlights the StatusNet feature that allows you to talk to someone else from a different site, unlike most other social networking and microblogging sites.

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our press section.

Upcoming Events

James Walker (Senior Services Architect at StatusNet) will be presenting at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium 2010 which is taking place in Toronto from October 28th until the 29th.

Reminders

The 2010 Drupal Conference is currently taking place in Copenhagen until the 27th of August. Join StatusNet's James Walker and many others as they meet about everything that is Drupal!

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4! Also, you can add community news for next week's post on our public wiki.

This past week at StatusNet has been spent hacking, working hard, and exploring the globe!

On behalf of the StatusNet team, I would like to take this chance to welcome two new StatusNet team members, Jordan (Support at StatusNet) and Martial (System Admin at StatusNet)! Welcome aboard!

Latest updates

Just a couple of days ago StatusNet announced the release of StatusNet 0.9.4. According to Brion Vibber (Senior Software Architect at StatusNet), "since the release, everything has been going great!"

StatusNet's Jon Phillips (Community Director at StatusNet) has been working in China recently. He will be spending the next couple of weeks participating in meetings, presentations and working towards StatusNet harmonization.

OStatus released another interview this week, this time with Tyler Gillies, the resident hacker at ReadWriteWeb. In the interview, Tyler talks about his first implementation of OStatus, robin.

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

Last Thursday August 12, Linux User and Developer posted an interview with Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet). In the interview, Evan opens up about Facebook and Twitter, and how he uses the two social networking services, but he still can't see any "reason that Facebook and Twitter can’t participate in that future federation."

In an article entitled "What social networks can learn from email - It's all about interoperability", Mayank Sharma talks about StatusNet and identi.ca, and how "running a social network behind corporate borders for employees to connect with each other is the standard way to network for many global businesses."

In an article written by Joab Jackson from Computer World UK, Jackson talks about open source social media, how StatusNet is an example of that, and how "such offerings could free users -- and their data -- from the locks of any one social-networking service."

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our press section on our website.

Upcoming Events

On August 20, 2010, at 7:00pm UTC, it is the GSoC final evaluation deadline.

James Walker (Senior Services Architect at StatusNet) will be attending the 2010 Drupal Conference in Copenhagen which takes place from August 23rd until the 27th. According to the DrupalCon website, "DrupalCon is the twice-yearly gathering of Drupalistas to learn about, discuss, and contribute to Drupal, networking with other Drupal community members in the process. You will have the opportunity to meet Drupal community leaders, top developers, your favorite module maintainers, dojo trainers, members of the Drupal Association, potential business partners, and future employees!"

Coming up in September, Brion Vibber (Senior Software Architect at StatusNet) will be attending the 2010 WebExpo in Prague from the 23rd until the 25th. Stay tuned for more details!

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4! Also, you can add community news for next week's post on our public wiki.

It's that time again -- we've packaged together the latest bug fixes and minor feature enhancements, and are pushing out StatusNet 0.9.4 (codename: "Orange Crush"). For best compatibility with client software and site federation, and a lot of bug fixes, it is highly recommended that all public sites upgrade to the new version.

StatusNet 0.9.4 is available for download now at http://status.net/download.

Notable changes this version:

• OpenID and OAuth libraries patched for potential timing attack
• OStatus feed i/o updated for Activity Streams
• Correctness fixes on XRD, other discovery bits
• Support for contacting SNI-based SSL virtual hosts when SSL certificate verification is enabled (requires PHP 5.3.2+ or enabling CURL backend with $config['http']['curl'] = true)
• Experimental SubMirror plugin
• Multi-site status_network table mode has been tweaked to support multiple tags better
• Many updates to user interface translation from TranslateWiki
• Many other bugfixes

StatusNet has been hacking away this past week, working hard to provide StatusNet users with the ultimate microblogging experience. Stay tuned, because we have a lot in store for you.

Latest updates

A new beta of StatusNet 0.9.4 has been installed on the StatusNet cloud sites this week. The full 9.9.4 version will be available soon.

A brief glitch with 0.9.4beta1 caused some messages from 2008 to be re-posted to identi.ca on Tuesday, and so the initial beta release was delayed; this has been resolved, and on Wednesday we upgraded the StatusNet cloud to 0.9.4beta2.

The upcoming South by SouthWest (SXSW) 2011, that will take place from March 11th until the 20th, has an online Panel Picker that allows you to "have a significant voice in programming Interactive, Film, and Music conference activities for SXSW 2011". Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet) has proposed a panel discussion for the SXSW 2011. You can vote for the federated social web panel at south by southwest 2011 proposed by Evan today! Blaine Cook, the former lead developer at Twitter, has also proposed a panel discussion for the SXSW 2011. You can also vote for the why & how of decentralized web identity panel proposed by Blaine today!

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

There have been a number of press mentions of the latest StatusNet funding that was led by FirstMark Capital, and joined by BOLDstart Ventures, iNovia Capital and Montreal Start Up, totaling $2.3 Million. These include Funding roundup - week ending 08/06/10 Exelate, PlacePop, Rapportive, Recurly, Redbeacon, StatSheet, StatusNet, YouSendIt, and Zulily, StatusNet Raises $2.3 Million for Enterprise Microblogging, Twitter rival StatusNet raises USD1.4m, StatusNet gets $1.27m additional funding, $2.3m raised to date, and Open-Source, Enterprise Twittering's StatusNet Funded.

In a recent post from Go4webapps entitled StatusNet – Bring the Conversations to Your Domain, the release of the StatusNet Desktop client is discussed and it mentions how "users get a more personalized and customized offering which in turn gives the business more control over the different operations and aspects of their Status.Net account."

In another post entitled Google Wave WILL LiveOn!, the author talks about how "StatusNet is a great example of how federated systems could work for a service like Twitter."

And lastly, in another post in which StatusNet was mentioned, entitled Status: Open Source Twitter, the author had been told that StatusNet is "the wordpress of the microblogging world".

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our Press Section.

Upcoming Events

Next week, students, mentors, and organization members for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) will start submitting their final evaluations to Google. Good luck!

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and soon you will be able to upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4! Also, you can add community news for next week's post on our public wiki.

StatusNet has been hacking away this past week, working hard to provide StatusNet users with the ultimate microblogging experience. Stay tuned, because we have a lot in store for you.

Latest updates

The latest StatusNet 0.9.4 is being released and installed on the StatusNet cloud sites this week.

A brief glitch with 0.9.4beta1 caused some messages from 2008 to be re-posted to identi.ca on Tuesday, and so the initial beta release was delayed; this has been resolved, and on Wednesday we upgraded the StatusNet cloud to 0.9.4beta2.

The upcoming South by SouthWest (SXSW) 2011, that will take place from March 11th until the 20th, has an online Panel Picker that allows you to "have a significant voice in programming Interactive, Film, and Music conference activities for SXSW 2011". Evan Prodromou (CEO and founder of StatusNet) has proposed a panel discussion for the SXSW 2011. You can vote for the federated social web panel at south by southwest 2011 proposed by Evan today! Blaine Cook, the former lead developer at Twitter, has also proposed a panel discussion for the SXSW 2011. You can also vote for the why & how of decentralized web identity panel proposed by Blaine today!

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

There have been a number of press mentions of the latest StatusNet funding that was led by FirstMark Capital, and joined by BOLDstart Ventures, iNovia Capital and Montreal Start Up, totaling $2.3 Million. These include Funding roundup - week ending 08/06/10 Exelate, PlacePop, Rapportive, Recurly, Redbeacon, StatSheet, StatusNet, YouSendIt, and Zulily, StatusNet Raises $2.3 Million for Enterprise Microblogging, Twitter rival StatusNet raises USD1.4m, StatusNet gets $1.27m additional funding, $2.3m raised to date, and Open-Source, Enterprise Twittering's StatusNet Funded.

In a recent post from Go4webapps entitled StatusNet – Bring the Conversations to Your Domain, the release of the StatusNet Desktop client is discussed and it mentions how "users get a more personalized and customized offering which in turn gives the business more control over the different operations and aspects of their Status.Net account."

In another post entitled Google Wave WILL LiveOn!, the author talks about how "StatusNet is a great example of how federated systems could work for a service like Twitter."

And lastly, in another post in which StatusNet was mentioned, entitled Status: Open Source Twitter, the author had been told that StatusNet is "the wordpress of the microblogging world".

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our Press Section.

Upcoming Events

Next week, students, mentors, and organization members for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) will start submitting their final evaluations to Google. Good luck!

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, download the StatusNet Desktop Client, and soon you will be able to upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.4! Also, you can add community news for next week's post on our public wiki.

This past week has been a great week for StatusNet, as we announced yesterday that we have recently received funding from FirstMark Capital, joined by BoldStart Ventures, iNovia, and Montreal Start Up! This brings the total amount of funding for StatusNet to a reasonable $2.3 Million.

Latest updates

This week, OStatus released a post on an interview with Tuomas Koski. The purpose of the interview was to get a better understanding of what people think of OStatus and how they use it. The most recent OStatus interview is only the first of many interviews that will be released over the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

StatusNet was spotted at the Download Festival! The founder of Jamendo, Sylvain Zimmer, was spotted wearing a StatusNet t-shirt! That is great!

Recent Mentions of StatusNet

The latest press release of the new StatusNet funding has created some wonderful press. Here are just a few of those press mentions: StatusNet Raises New Round of Investment Led by FirstMark Capital, Open Source Microblogging Startup StatusNet Lands More Funding, StatusNet Raises $2.3 Million for Enterprise Microblogging, Attracting the right type of co-investors (Status.Net), StatusNet Lands Funding for Open Source Microblogging, Status.net Gets $1.4M to Take Open-Source Twitter Into the Enterprise.

In a recent blog post by Scott Switzer, venture partner at FirstMarket Capital, entitled Microblogging - how can we create an enterprise platform from a consumer product?, Scott talks about StatusNet and how it "has built a recipe for the ideal enterprise microblogging platform."

In an article written by Tom Murphy, Do - Enough Talking; The Creation of the Social Web Acid Test, Tom talks about his experience at the Federated Social Web Summit (FSWS), and the announcement of the Social Web Acid Test level One (SWATO).

For more of the latest press mentions for StatusNet, you can visit our Press Section.

Upcoming Events

Coming up in August, StatusNet will be busy doing a bunch of hacking. Also, Jon Phillips (Community Director for StatusNet) will doing an Asian business and community development tour the 2nd half of August. If anyone is interested in meeting up with Jon in Singapore, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai or Beijing, send him an email at jon@status.net.

This is Derek reporting to you from StatusNet in Montreal. Don't forget to subscribe to Status on Status.net, be sure to upgrade to the latest version StatusNet 0.9.3, and download the StatusNet Desktop Client! Also, you can add community news for next week's post on our public wiki.