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I likey. ;) - Daynah

Me toooooo - Mona Nomura

this could be a big deal if it works as well as FF, here, I'm more than willing to switch back to twitter. - Pete Delucchi

hmmmmm. - Lindsay

Hasn't Summize had this for a while now? - Tom Landini

No idea, I don't use summarize. Anyone? - Mona Nomura from fftogo

urm GONG :) - Allen Stern

Gluttons for punishment, you Twitter returnees. ;-) - Chris Baskind

this seems to be the weekend for posting old news :) - Allen Stern

Well Aaron and Allen, Im not a cool early adopter like you guys, so to ME this is news. hmph >:( - Mona Nomura from fftogo

+1 Allen - Nathan Rein

Ok, let's turn this into an I know more than you thread! Anyone else? ;) - Mona Nomura from fftogo

mona you are the wind beneath my wings, did i ever tell you you're my hero? - Allen Stern

ahaha Mona. sorry, I suck. - Nathan Rein

Hmmm... well, then I guess I'm not as cutting edge as I thought I was. This is total news to me. - l0ckergn0me

Yes, this has been like that for a while now. Twitter bought Summize and integrated it (partially). - Veronica

Haha, sorry, didn't mean to be a part of "I knew that before you!" meme... - Veronica

I'm wondering how well it works. How does it know two or more tweets form a conversation? - Todd Jordan

I am only getting results from over a month ago. Not very functional if your trying to stay current on any kind of conversation... And isn't that the purpose of this meme? - Curtis "Billy" Cross from twhirl

Well, to me it was totally news on summize, are you sure it already had it? Update: you are right, it already had it.I updated the post - Marcello Del Bono

Very smart move on their part... - Ron Emrick

This is great news. Thanks for sharing. - jen robinson from twhirl

But, just like the Twitter API, no search API is available. At least they thought about RSS feeds for the text search. - Rob Diana

Whats needed is a common standard for friend relationships. then twitter, identi.ca, etc compete to be the medium - Aziz Poonawalla

Aziz, there are a few "friend" standards alread, FOAF and XFN, as well as the open social and social graph stuff. Identica using the Twitter API gives you the same friend access as well. - Rob Diana

Rob: theres a way to "see" my twitter friends using identi.ca? I googled but didnt find details on how. - Aziz Poonawalla

Aziz, sorry I must have misunderstood you. The API is not "cross-platform", I was saying the Identica API is identical to the Twitter API. Not that you could see Twitter people from Identica. - Rob Diana

Rob: no problem. yes, what i was getting at is a universla "friend" standard so your friend relationships are independent of the services (twitter, facbook, etc). this would remove the "network effect" catch -22 of any new service - Aziz Poonawalla

Pretty wild, actually. Will (does?) identi.ca do an SMS short code gateway? - Chris Brogan

Thanks for sharing this news, Dave. This is a GREAT step forward for identi.ca. I just tried my own Twitter apps and they "just worked" with identi.ca. Wonderful! - Dan York from twhirl

"just worked" is the way you want stuff to work :-) - Dave Winer

Tim, I agree. Though, it's not the upfront dollar amount or the monthly fees. It's all the other prices that make it unattractive to me. Unattractive in the same way the AppleTV is unattractive. - Garrick Van Buren

Oh, but if you keep listening to the nerdosphere (I love that coinage) long enough you will decide you HAVE to have one. IS this not the basis for Brainvertising anyway? Wear the dullards down. Tie them into my gated, elite service plan and make them feel good about crappy connections at exorbitant prices. God bless the ignoramus! - Curtis "Billy" Cross from twhirl