European Wafaa

Looks like the world is trying to be more social now (/me thinks it's another way of saying Web2.0), so I've jumped on the bandwagon a bit.

First off was LinkedIn, I hardly use it to be honest I know I probably should do more; then there is Last.fm something I sort of use, I say sort of because I'm in the lap of the gods when it comes to plugins that register (or not) my listening habits; then Facebook, something I very rarely use now as it just seems really immature to me; then there is Twitter, I use this a fair amount although that may change; why would it change? Because of identi.ca that's why.

Twitter has a fairly good ecosystem around it allowing developers access to its APIs etc, which means loads of additional apps etc. Poor identi.ca has a very small eco-system at the minute but that is only because it is very new, and I'm sure that will change. What am I saying it already is! Ryan Paul has made one of the first big steps, he has created Gwibber. So what's so good about it then? well for starters it's one of the first if not THE first identi.ca desktop clients, secondly it allows you to use all of the following Social/Web2.0 sites in addition to identi.ca - Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, and Digg. It's great fro cross posting on services - write once and post to Twitter, identi.ca and Jaiku at the same time.

So for all you Geeko lovers I present There are packages for openSUSE 10.3, 11.0 and Factory (11.1). Please try it out and let me know of any issues, or better yet file them here. Enjoy and remember it's good to be social, but even better to be a sociable geeko