One Uber Identi.ca List for Creatives & Geeks

Posted: November 28, 2008 at 7.38 pm
Posted by Graham Smith in Uber Lists

Since the last Uber list, for Fleck users I have been focusing several other Micro-Blogging platforms. The main one namely being Identi.ca. I signed up to this sometime back, and felt it had potential but was missing some basic functionality. That aside, it had a very loyal user base which is continuing to grow at speed and more importantly, Identi.ca itself is rapidly progressing in functionality.

As a tool for social media and social networking it’s fast becoming a major player.

I have been chatting about Identi.ca quite a lot this week, trying to drum up some enthusiasm, my main motive being, ‘what happens if Twitter goes down‘. I know for a fact that when Twitter does suffer an outage it causes much dismay and disruption to business for alot of people. Yet few have any viable back-up. OK, they may be subscribed themselves to a number of alternatives like Plurk, Pownce etc but they don’t have the same follow list for contacts. And without followers and contacts, being on another platform is close to useless.

There is also a discussion going on over at SocialMedian about ‘what happened if Twitter died’, so if you wan to take a peek, pop on over there. If you like it, sign up and ‘clip’ the story as well, bit like voting but better. :)

So my feeling was that as a pretty awesome creative community, we could sort of create a back-up network. This really isn’t doing justice to Identi.ca because it’s so much more than a back-up to Twitter, it is a viable alternative. At the moment, it still lacks the user base to persuade many people to even consider it. So by designating it the back-up, it instantly becomes more popular and more used. Which is a good thing for great application.

And when Twitter does go down for any length of time, most of us wont be sat stunned, not knowing what to do, we can just shift over to Identi.ca and start chatting again.

The cool thing with Identi.ca is it’s close ties to Twitter. From within Identi.ca you can automatically post to your Twitter stream. Twhirl supports Identi.ca, so you can have a Identi.ca window up as well as Twitter and FriendFeed. The iPhone now has dedicated Identi.ca applications also. So it’s very well supported and becoming more so.

This list therefore is a Uber list for Identi.ca users.

Fleck List

FaceBook List

SocialMedian List

Failure List

DesignFloat List

Twitter List

Blip.fm DJ LIst

Delicious List

StumbleUpon List

Uber Flickr List for

LinkedIn List

Portfolio List

If you don’t know the score by now and knew to these posts, then please head back to the Twitter Follow List to start you’re initiation. :0)

So as with the ‘One Uber Twitter Follow List for Creatives & Geeks’ simply add your Fleck profile/user ID as a reply to this post, with a small Bio of what you do, stand for, work as, aim for etc. No harm in using the Twitter Bio for this really.

Don’t forget to invite me to you’re ‘inner circle’ as well before you do anything else.

And to nicely round things off

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