StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The Word. Montreal-based StatusNet, the company behind the open-source microblogging service identi.ca, is closing an $875,000 seed round today. Investors include Montreal Startup, iNovia Capital, Fotolia co-founder Oleg Tscheltzoff, and Xavier Niel. The startup, which changed its name a few weeks ago from Control Yourself, raised a previous seed round of $150,000 from Montreal Startup in January, 2009. StatusNet wants to become the WordPress of microblogging. It created an open-source microblogging software platform (formerly called laconi.ca, now called status.net) which anyone can download and run on their own servers.
Now, it is working on a hosted version of Status.net, currently in private beta. (We have 50 invites for anyone who includes the invitation code “TC09″ on the signup page). The company recently hired Brion Vibber, the former CTO of Wikipedia, as its senior software architect. Currently, Status.net is only available as a download (which can be run behind a firewall). Paljastuksia! Qaikun tuleva askel: organisaatioqaiku :) Quub. ESME: Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like? While not yet publicly available, ESME aims to bring all the best things about Twitter to global business communication.
Rapid collaboration, network effects leveraged for support, multiple interfaces and some advanced features that Twitter itself doesn't yet offer. Check out the demo video embedded below. We think there's a whole lot of potential here. 35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb. It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there, and there are an overwhelming amount of services offering a way to aggregate all the little bits of your online life (which, for the purpose of this post, is the definition of lifestreaming that we'll use).
Richard MacManus wrote an excellent primer on lifestreaming in January, but we touched on just 5 such services. The purpose of this post, rather than to review, is to just list the various options out there. Lifestreaming apps generally fall into two categories: those that help you keep track of and display your own lifestream and those that help you keep track of your friend's lifestreams (or both).
For the sake of clarity, we've focused mainly on the former for this list. Are there any we missed?