Jeff Evans

The Forth Rail Bridge is amazing. I wish I was able to see something so cool everyday! - Bryan Clark

Cool! They all go somewhere! - JC unwired

Friend import next please and then it might be useful - sam sethi via Alert Thingy

http://www.scripting.com/daven... - Dave Winer

sam, I think the point is that if Twitter et al implement Open Microblogging, importing won't be necessary - klecu

It needs some "recommended friends" to avoid looking really lame to newbies. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you just want to get recommended there too. Come on, admit it. - klecu

klecu: nice try, but I've been talking about this before I was on recommended systems here: http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/... - Robert Scoble

I'm still trying to figure out a reason to use identi.ca. Playing around with it. We'll see. - Dennis Jackson

I don't understand why it was launched WITHOUT a Replies tab in the first place... - Mark Douglass

I agree with Dennis Jackson, minus the "playing around with it" part. - ChaCha Fance

Yes, it lacks some basic features, especially if people are looking at it who are coming from twitter. Not having replies really annoys me, enough not to use it. - jjprojects

GOOD, that is an essential feature... neat to see it growing so quickly - not only with users, but also features - Susan Beebe

big feature - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Yep - looks like identi.ca has been built correctly so far too. It *appears* to be scaleing up nicely after a few slow days early on. - Jonathan Beckett

@critics: Identi.ca is worth supporting, because it is open source. The very reason means that it has the potential of attracting third-party developers that create plug-ins, improve the platform or simply host their own Identi.ca-installations. That's a huge thing. Think about Firefox: It is based on Mozilla/Netscape's code, which was created. AOL didn't do anything with it, but others came and created Firefox (and Flock, Sunbird, Songbird, etc.) because it is open. That's Identi.ca's biggest feature. - sebmos

Next step must be API. - Sergey Petrenko

sebmos: I'm still learning about Identi.ca. Your comment kind of pushed me back on the site to research it a bit. I can see this going somewhere. :) - Dennis Jackson

Replies tab on Indenti.ca is big. I'd also like to be able to export my subscription lists. Edit/delete would be nice too. - Jeff Evans

Nice to see this feature already. I was talking to the dev yesterday and was asking if I can jump in and provide a solution for it. Cool to see that the guy already did it himself :-). - Alex Popescu via feedalizr

Mark Douglass - Twitter launched without a replies function as well, you know. And it took a lot longer than a few days for it to arrive. - Earle Martin ☃

So if we wildly extrapolate identi.ca's usability increase, it could potentially surpass Twitter in 3 months and Friendfeed in 6. The question then is: will users migrate and become critical mass on the new service? By now we know that critical mass is more important than QoS, as evidenced by the bird and the whale. - Ignace Rodriguez

http://identi.ca/your_nickname... --- for output of your identi.ca subscriptions -- thanks evan - Jeff Evans

this is so effing awesome! - Sarah Perez

(s_dance) - Hao Chen

identi.ca is irrelevant. It's a step backwards from FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk

Whoa, that must of been some seriously shitty software before now, but still shitty I see? - Andrew Baron

This still is not the distributed version you wanted Dave. And I -with all the respect I owe to its makers- don't think that it will success if all the twitter crowd come in. I hope I'm wrong - directeur via NoiseRiver

I think Replies is a setup in the right direction. In fact. it might be the main step. Awesome. - Andrew Ruess via twhirl

For me, it's still just idont.ca.re - Alan Le

Agree with Alan Le. identi.ca doesn't seem like much of an upgrade. It's a distraction from a better solution - getting everyone over to FriendFeed. - Jon Galloway

Yep, i'm with Jon there... I really don't see the fuss Identi.ca . Why are we getting excited over replies...ridiculous. - Zee.

@John You mean like a feed aggregator for feed aggregators? Clever. ;-) - Mike

Some nice ideas that I haven't seen elsewhere - particularly like the Flickr slideshow, and the calendar view is really nice. I think it has a way to go to get too many people switching though. - Richard Peat

yeah, i like the way it looks, but it needs more functions... maybe IM or something.... or it's own status update like twitter - c010depunkk via twhirl

Oh man, I'm a total sucker for great UI. - Sonciary Honnoll

Wow. Fastest setup time ever! had all services linked up in less than 5 minutes. - Andy Lewandowski via twhirl

One thing I'm not diggin is the increasing lack of undo that I'm finding here and there. Swurl is one place. indenti.ca another. Typos are also a drag where they can't be edited. FriendFeed is nice this way. I can edit. Blogs aren't much of a problem. Microblogs like Twitter and indenti.ca and an aggregator like Swurl are however. - Jeff Evans

The other thing I have to remember is where to post where for what! :) -- Ping.fm helps alot. I finally have iPhone, Twitter, indenti.ca, Facebook, Tumblr, FriendFriend all playing nice with each other. Took a full day of noodling though. - Jeff Evans

Wow swurl showed my activities as far back as 2006. Got to savor those delicious links I had bookmarked once upon a time. - Arvind

John: it's actually more like a "instant blog creator", showing all your content (not only headlines or tiny previews) embedded and in full length, even videos you favorited, and all that in your own look (you can use your own CSS). But it sure lacks an edit function and much more - Gaby Benkwitz

@Cains: FYI - there already is a GM API for Gmail http://code.google.com/p/gmail... - simonpure

@simon Thanks for that, I hadn't seen that before. Sadly it lacks the functions I'd want to use but it's a good starting point, cheers - Cains

When will everyone start to realize that Google is taking over the entire web and it's time for everyone to stop kissing their ass, I mean really enuff already. They are going to kill everyone. Should we all just give up and buy GOOG stock? - Donovan Slennon

@Donovan Is google acting in a way that is harmful to the "entire web"? Are they taking steps to reduce competition or innovation? It seems to me, and I use many google services, that they are innovating and encouraging other innovation. The nice thing about the web is the choices - I think you can ignore google if you want - although, I haven't tried. I mostly like their services. - Sean

Agree they are brilliant and innovative but Google are mowing down all competition in every related field one by one - have you seen their media server - pow, another few markets decimated in a matter of years; health - pow, lets just kill off health players; are we all just going to plug into the beast - i know i haven't expressed it succinctly or even well but if you can't see that Google is all powerful and is all about profit then we all need help. Someone needs to look at some antitrust law and save us - Donovan Slennon

@Donovan - ok, thanks, that is what I wanted to know, where they have been anti-competitive. However, in their defense (and I don't know why), there is a difference between anti-competitive and better than everyone else. I will be watching more carefully in the future. - Sean

Cool; I don't know my antitrust law but when you use your market power in one market to squash competition in another then you are abusing your power - key is the definition of the market - but helen keller could see that they are the standard oil of the 1900's. The extent to which the leading market commentators are silent on this is reminiscent of the free ride given by the media to Bush's Iraq invasion - no one stopped to look around until after the mess; so we desparately need some dialogue - Donovan Slennon

Donovan, Google has not killed the health field; there are a number of competitive products (HealthVault just to pick one), so if people gravitate to the GOOG (whether its good or bad), unless they took some specific anti-competitive actions, what's the problem? Outside of search and search advertising where is the field where they have more than even 30% market share? Ok feed readers perhaps :). I use their services if I like them. If not I don't. - Deepak

Respect your opinion but I don't think you're smelling the roses b/c of all the lovely scented sht that google has emeshed us in; just ask anyone with a web or web related business what the #1 issue/risk in their business is and it's those 'do gooders' from mountain view - one of the greatest pr machines of all time - Donovan Slennon

Since I am quite sure I have never bought into any PR, lets agree to disagree. I use what I like. A decent chunk happens to be from Google, and that's what it happens to be. YMMV of course - Deepak