I’m happy to announce today that our main product, the Open Source microblogging server Laconica, has a new name.
StatusNet is the new name that simply reflects what our software does: sends status updates into your social network. We think it’s clear and simple, serious without being stuffy.
As part of this change, we’ve also made changes to the company itself. From here on, we’ll be known as StatusNet, Inc. showing the renewed concentration on our core product.
Finally, we’ve concentrated our disparate Web presences at laconi.ca and controlyourself.ca into one hub: status.net. This will be the distribution point for the software; the developer hub for our dev group; and the main address for the hosted service we’ll be launching in the near future.
I’ve really liked the names we’ve used in the past, but I think (and my team and the developers agree) that using StatusNet will be great for the company and for this project. Thanks to everyone who’s given us feedback on the name; it’s really turned out well.
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Congratulations Evan – to you and the team, you’ve done a very good job.
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Congrats to you and your team! It’s a milestone I guess
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Great name! congrats Evan, and all the best
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I think the new name is much better! I said recently that one big advantage that Twitter has is its name. Twitter, tweet, tweeting, retweeting — all are very natural.
StatusNet is much more understandable than Laconica (which was a nice name, but a bit too… geeky?)
Wow, this is worse that the old lj vs ljcom vs livejournal.com vs livejournal.org (lj = open source code, ljcom = proprietary code, livejournal.com = instance at livejournal.com, livejournal.org = info about dev)
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Many thanks for informations, lets hope in great things in this place for all of us. Congratulations and good luck under the new and inspired name!
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I like the new name. It makes perfect sense. I wonder how much the domain cost?
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I liked the name “Control Yourself”, but I agree with the name change and I am sure it will help promote your software.
so like, will the server software itself be known from now on as StatusNet, or will it still be called Laconica?
Just to have some dissent here: I think StatusNet is way too dry and clinical, it’s a description, not a name… I’d expect it as a module or class name, but not as a public facing one, sorry…
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nice move, the new name makes much more sense for being a great platform for microblogging!
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