Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. In ...

The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical ...

The first open-source challenge to the pioneering microblogging site Twitter launched earlier this month. Identi.ca, built using open-source software Laconica, was started by the Montreal-based ...

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 ...

This morning, I heard Identi.ca mentioned more than a few times in comments on Twitter, the microblogging service that’s having problems staying reliable as its popularity grows. Identi.ca is, as the ...

HootSuite, venerable social media management system, just announced that it's extended the functionality of its social content platform to include such business-friendly apps as MailChimp, Chime.in, ...

Are pure open source principles, by themselves, enough to lend a start-up traction in the market? Identi.ca hopes so. The Montreal-based start-up is offering the micro-blogging functionality of ...