Google gives us great search results. 
Facebook helps us to stay in touch with a lot of friends…
Twitter helps us to get “social reports” on what happens around the world, more and more faster than existing media.
Ok, for search we have a lot of alternatives, like Yahoo, Digg etc.
It’s all about competition and searching alternatives for a service we use.
If you drive a Ford and you are unhappy with your Ford, you can buy a Golf or a BMW.
So, for microblogging it must be a good idea to have an alternative to Twitter: Identi.ca.
Twitter is closed source completely, but Identi.ca is based on opensource for Microblogging.
The service Identi.ca is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services, based on Laconi.ca.
* What happens, if Twitter is down?
* What happens, if Twitter will grow and have more and more “marketing spam”?
* What happens, if Twitter will filter messages in future and we user cannot review what they do?
Microblogging is about people. So we will see, what the future will bring us.
But is there room to live beside Twitter (Google will close Jaiku as alternative, they not really stop the project, but put it opensource)?
Identi.ca have some good potentials to grow as service like Twitter in the same way as we have different
messaging networks like MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk.
Why not push Identi.ca with some good ideas from the opensourced Jaiku…
I’m looking forward to see future applications for Identi.ca, like Twhirl or Tweedeck for Twitter.
It should not be as hard as Identi.ca offer a similar API like Twitter.
Twitters first growth was based on their first-mover status, then they grew up based on fantastic applications from the community based on their public API,
but has Identi.ca a chance to jump on this wagon?
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