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Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom

(Posted on  ReadWriteWeb  about 1 month ago)

Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services. If you've become inte… (visit source article)
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