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Tease: And even more so in the coming months. Spoke with Evan last night and there are some interesting things on their way. - Austin Hill

I personally think it will be interesting to see what identi.ca does to differetiate itself from twitter - Mike Hamilton

@Thomas - Twitter clone hasn't begun to cover what's possible. I think that's like calling Wordpress a Blogger clone back in 2004. I wish the Twitter guys all the best, but there is a lot of innovation to come in Microblogging, Lifecasting and Activity stream aggregation. Twitter seems to have it's hands full scaling and I'd love to see some innovation on features in the market place. I think identi.ca will be part of that market for innovation. - Austin Hill

Why should identi.ca differentiate itself? It's really about recognizing that federating status updates should become a "taken-for-granted" part of social infrastructure. Next step is Interop with Twitter, not differentiation. - Chris Messina

Austin, but isn't identi.ca a step back from FriendFeed really? Why spend any time there? - Thomas Hawk

I don't want to "like" the post, but I do want to "like" chris messina's comment :) - karl dotter

Intriguing. - Vincent X

@davew, YouAre.com sounds much better than identi.ca. Check http://www.inquisitr.com/1745... - Alex Sauceda

I know what it is! David Winer has found out that identi.ca has turned into a wishing well and he's keeping it to himself. I'm going to like this so he remembers who his friends are :-) - Jonas Anderson

"With today's addition to Identica, you can now follow people!" - Bryan Woods

evan did say last week that a Twitter-compatible API was on track for this week. Hopefully, that's the news. And it's NOT about a twitter clone; it's about making microblogging an open standard -- like email -- that allows you to use your access method of choice (local client, web, mobile, etc.) Interoperability to microblogging will FREE it! Remember MCImail? cc:mail? Remember Profs? Remember VAX All-in-1-mail? All frontrunners in the email channel. All closed. All dead (or on life support). - Bundini

The TwitterAPI is already available on identi.ca and in the darcs repository. maybe something else? - Markus Heurung

Bundini: I hope that's what it is. Related post: http://scripting.com/stories... - Vincent X

@Thomas Hawk - Why do you see FriendFeed as a step forward from Twitter? FriendFeed is something different - you can't really compare the two when you look at the core use case. - sebmos

@Thomas: as someone who never really got into twitter, I thought the same as you. However, after becoming addicted to ff, I began using twitter more as a great way to post messages to my ff (there are just so many ways to get things *in* to twitter). I'm rooting for identi.ca, though, simply because i think it will one day do all that twitter does using an open source system. That, and I have no real follower base on twitter to worry about abandoning anyway. - Trent Olson

1. There is no Trackpad control panel, and no Trackpad settings in the Mouse CP. 2. There is a feature called ClickLock, which appears to be the cause of this horrible feature. 3. However it was not checked by default. 4. I checked it and chose Settings and set the delay to the longest possible value. 5. Seems to have fixed the problem. 6. As usual in Windows, you have to lie to make it work properly. - Dave Winer

Next issue ==> I forgot how to get Windows and Macs on the same network to do file sharing. Arrrrrrrgh. It's been a long time since I used Windows. - Dave Winer

Did manage to copy an AVI file across using an SD card and the screen is lovely! Sound is good too, but at first it sounded like it was in a sewer, the echo was terrible. Found a way to turn that off and it sounds great. - Dave Winer

There is no Directory Access app in the Utilities sub-folder of the Applications folder. I'm running Leopard, the instructions seem to be for an earlier version of Mac OS. - Dave Winer

I was able to get the file sharing to go from Mac to the Asus, using the Go command in the Finder. It's nice! And with 802.11n support, it's fast too. - Dave Winer

Jasmin, I didn't install any drivers. I'll go look. - Dave Winer

Oy. I installed a fresh BIOS thinking that would get me the Synaptics driver, but no, and now the machine has forgotten that it has wifi. Any clues how to get it to recognize this? I forgot about all the trapdoors in Windows. Shouldn't have fukced with anything. - Dave Winer

With some fiddling about I was able to get the wifi working again. SOmehow the WAN had gotten disabled. Re-enabling it got me the option to turn it on in My Network or something. Fiddling and diddling that's how you get Windows to do your bidding! :-) - Dave Winer

I am selling mine. Let me know if anyone is interested. - darodave