Comments on: Automattic Launches Group Twitter-style Platform

By: The Potential of StatusNet Properly Explained [Federated Microblogging] « The SiliconANGLE

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:36:05 +0000

[...] The paragraph that tripped me up in the post was this one: The bet here is that just as millions of people run their own blogs, millions of people and companies will want to run their own microblogs as well. Offering a microblogging platform as a hosted service will allow StatusNet to pursue a strategy similar to WordPress.com. It will offer the basic service for free, and then charge power-users for extras. Note that Wordpress is itself pursuing this strategy with P2 (which used to be called Prologue). [...]

By: StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:58:05 +0000

[...] charge power-users for extras. Note that Wordpress is itself pursuing this strategy with P2 (which used to be called Prologue), as are other startups such as [...]

By: StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:58:05 +0000

[...] charge power-users for extras. Note that Wordpress is itself pursuing this strategy with P2 (which used to be called Prologue), as are other startups such as [...]

By: I am Matt Thomas » Another Word on Prologue

I am Matt Thomas » Another Word on Prologue — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:29:36 +0000

[...] TechCrunch: Automattic Launches Group Twitter-style Platform [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:48:25 +0000

Not really keeping to its original intention, but Prologue’s clean, white, iPhone friendly creative inspired me to build a Jakarta bar listings & review site:

http://www.jakartabar.com/

Innovative use of various WP comments plugins allow users to not just submit their reviews, but also ratings, as well as rate the reviews of other users.

By: Sach

Sach — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:59:17 +0000

Great potential for this to break into the work place

http://tinyurl.com/ywujvq

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:53:56 +0000

# 25 stole my line. THIS IS A THEME, not a Platform. Wordpress is great, but to say this is a platform is just not true. In the WP blog entry they even say it’s a theme.

By: rubu

rubu — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:45:12 +0000

By: seriesoftubes

seriesoftubes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:42:05 +0000

Since when is a WordPress theme a “new platform?”

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:36:44 +0000

Twitters value is in its neutrality – SMS from ANY phone, IM from ANY client, tweet from ANY browser. While this plug-in seems cool, and I am add it to my blog for its novelty, it is not and never will be a “Twitter killer”.

FYI – anytime you see “________ killer” in your RSS you know its click bait. Thanks journalists desperate for clicks!

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:55:34 +0000

@Duncan: not a big deal? vendors like Microsoft have 500 million users of their desktop software, SAP has a developer network of 1 million people, Oracle has 6.5 mill database users. Not a big deal? Think again my friend. This is a very smart move by Automattic for ground up acceptance of their services.

By: Cesar Cardoso

Cesar Cardoso — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:48:33 +0000

“Leah Culver from Pownce (who’s not one of my fans)”

I would ask why Leah Culver isn’t your fan, Duncan, but I remembered I’m not at Valleywag or Gawker

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:46:41 +0000

From the WordPress codebase, all this really does is allow comments to be posted without a parent blog entry and then it reverses the display order.

By: Evangelist

Evangelist — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:28:12 +0000

I just saw that. Thanks Raanan.

This doesn’t seem to be packaged and released officially.
Any instructions on how to use it?

Thanks

By: Raanan Bar-Cohen

Raanan Bar-Cohen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:12:28 +0000

@ Evangelist –

This theme is for WordPress.com and self-installed WordPress.

You can download it here: http://svn.auto...hemes/prologue/

By: Evangelist

Evangelist — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:48:25 +0000

Hmmm… is this theme available only for their hosted wordpress offering?

OR can a standalone installed wordpress also download this theme and use it?

Where can i download this theme? Anyone has a pointer?

Thanks

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:16:27 +0000

Philip
Mullenweg is the one who suggested the distributed Twitter thing….in denying it at least, but I bet that was on a wink wink basis.

By: Wes

Wes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:11:09 +0000

I just think this is something that can be worked on to produce an even better product. Only time will tell.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:08:57 +0000

Prologue is a Wordpress theme you can use on Wordpress.com or your own self-installed Wordpress. I don’t see how they’ve (Automattic) presented it as anything else. From what I see, it arranges posts in a way that emulates Twitter functionality. It’s basically authors on a blog making short posts about what they’re doing. Every “feature” in the theme is something that’s already provided via Wordpress. Anyone familiar with Wordpress theming can put this together VERY easily. They’ve just done this as a value-add (pre-built theme) for their Wordpress.com users.

So Prologue itself isn’t a competing service to Twitter – again, it’s not even a service, it’s a theme. Yes, you can use the theme on your Wordpress.com account but I think the leap from theme to “service” is still exaggerated. This talk now about whether it will “change the game” or take on Twitter doesn’t make any sense to me, considering Prologue doesn’t offer anything new on top of Wordpress itself.

P.S. I’m a huge fan/user of Wordpress so don’t get me wrong, I love the extensibility and flexibility of the software.

By: Tweetpress

Tweetpress — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:04:28 +0000

>That said, next very worthwhile undertaking would be to pick up from this
…, next very worthwhile undertaking would be for WordPress to pick up from this

By: Tweetpress

Tweetpress — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:02:36 +0000

We can testify that it is a new feature from Wordpress… for we at TweetPress share the same (obvious) direction and moniters similar offerings (decentralizing tweets)..

That said, next very worthwhile undertaking would be to pick up from this http://www.buddypress.com (adding social features to WordPress MU).. then the world will have some decentralized and open-sourced facebook (equivalent)..

By: Aditya Mukherjee

Aditya Mukherjee — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:55:49 +0000

“Automattic has released Prologue, a Twitter style service”

I believe this is not a new service, but a hacked-out-of-it’s-skin theme for Wordpress that adds the required functionality.

Correct me if I’m wrong

By: Tech For Novices

Tech For Novices — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:52:43 +0000

Dear Duncan

Everything you write tickles our fancy

we probably access your site 100 times a day

Tech For Novices

By: John McCrea

John McCrea — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:38:11 +0000

And we’re big fans of Twitter’s open approach. We used the API to enable two-way status sync between Twitter and Plaxo Pulse. The blogpost with more details is here: http://blog.pla...ncing_twow.html

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:17:45 +0000

But will it encourage others to start their own distributed services, thus siphoning users away from Twitter?