I like twitter although I don’t use it much.

people still blog?

if i want to know what someone is up to, i will call them and ask. web 2.0 is such a dissappointment.

@billy

Then got back to Usenet.

oops
got = go

You nailed it–Indenti.ca is not Twitter. I do find it funny that the same people complaining about Twitter’s disabled features and erratic uptime have no problem with Indenti.ca’s complete lack of features and erratic uptime, just because it’s new, decentralized and open source. But that doesn’t make it good.

Why would they need to have people run IRC style bot networks?

The Identi.ca service is hosted on Amazon’s S3, E2 cloud. They have all the computing power they CAN PAY FOR. Wooops, they don’t mention that do they?

I say make them pay for the Amazon bandwidth with all that BDC and money the Canadian govt steals from people with 70% taxes.
I would never trust a service based in Montreal, Quebec. EVER. Simply because it’s french canadian.

If you are on Identi.ca you are now dealing with a foreign country.
Idenit.ca will never host election debates, because it’s a foreign country.

competition is good. twitter needs it.

Chris, I’m sorry for you.

All that hate must be hard to bear

I truly think that Chris is either extremely stupid or extremely brilliant, because his comments rarely make any sense. This is yet another example. What the hell is he talking about?

And for a bit of a laugh beyond Fail Whale t-shirts, check out the Fake Twitter Status blog:

http://faketwitterstatus.tumblr.com

What else are you going to do when Twitter is down?!

Chris,

How does your skewed view of Quebec explain the many software millionaires (and a few billionaires) who have built world class companies in Quebec?

Does it frustrate you that people who speak other languages and have other cultural backgrounds then you have been successful in global markets when you have not?

Evan built and sold Wikitravel and did very well for himself. So well that he can now build services he wants too and contribute them to the community open source. That he did while in Quebec (he’s from San Francisco originally) must confuse your strongly held prejudices & ignorance.

While you are at it, stop using Linux because international screwballs who speak other languages contributed. SAP should be wiped out because its built by Germans for god sake.

As Heri said, all that hate must be hard to bear.

small correction: identi.ca’s maker, Evan Prodromou (creator of wikitravel.org) is American, from San Francisco, but he lives in Montreal.

The other problem with identi.ca is that twitter has a much better name.

I’ve appreciated Twitter. It broke new ground, provided accessible functionality, and gain a passionate following…it has a lot of traction.

Because of its Twitter’s past service issues I decided to try (Jaiku and) Pownce. Pownce seems to be on par with Twitter, without the 140 character limit. Other than Twitter was “first”, I don’t understand why Pownce seems to have not gained users and popularity.

The problem with Twitter clones is you have to convince all your friends to move with you. If you have no friends at a new service, no matter how great it is, it will be boring. Social networking, especially of the microblogging variety, is all about connecting with people. I’m not moving to identica, though it has some nice features. I will put up with twitter for now because that’s where everyone else is.

Thanks for the break 

Well said, Austin. But why feed the troll at all?

Pretty soon, all this is going to pale, as people stand in bread lines and realize, as if the scales fell from their eyes, that any of these silly services had any impact on their lives or careers, the nations long term economy, and the ability of America to thrive without its real, specialist manufacturing mid-sized base which has been decimated over the last 20 years.

More social networks! More zero sum exits and buyouts where nothing is added to the economy except the excessive and conspicuous consumption habits of the founders.

Hey! How about a Mobile social network, that…..wait for it…let’s you findyour friends at the bar while the US Dollar tanks, gas goes 7, and your daughters are bought by the UAE.

Hey, how about a “Social Network for Your Apartment Building?”

The building being bought by EU private REIT.

GNU’s Not Unix…

Chris: Your comments are sad.

I love Quebec. It has given so much to North America, it has given so much to Canada. Its startup scene is vibrant and bears more than its share of the weight in Canada.

The fact that Evan is from San Francisco but has decided to live in Montreal just speaks to how great a place it is, and how great the people there are.

And hey, the people there are just plain better looking than pretty much any other city in North America.

You really should take a trip there sometime.

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/S.....B-9.9///en

“Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:”

The Canadian govt takes mass amounts of money from people. IE, regular gas is $7 a gallon in the north east, where as 53% of that is tax that goes to pay for Heritage, state run radio cbc, state run television Telefilm which funds lame shows like victor lucas’s G4 shows amongst all the other ones.

The Canadian govt also taxes people with SMEs about 60-70% in income tax because LLC does not exist in Canada, so to protect yourself by shares you need to set up an unrealistic large entity.

So the Canadian govt pillages then funds these soviet style tech startups and funnels money into companies that have no purpose other than to give people jobs. They do this to give others the impression that they are successful, when ultimately they just robbed people blind to finance it.

There was a 1 BILLION dollar employment insurance surplus which Harper gave to towns effected by these unfair regulations, which nobody approved. They also give the money to the softwood lumber industry just to keep people employed. When the US tariffs their goods because they know it’s not fair and just laundering, the Canadian govt cries to the WTO.

sitac.ca/pdf/07Annual_ReviewEnglish.pdf

do find, then Beerco

When I went to the last ITAC meeting at the Bell center a couple years ago, I was privy to some information that the govt of Canada stages technology white papers, hides them from the public that finances them, then takes steps to strategically manipulate the tech industry in relation to the United States where companies can not benefit from the govt startup financing. They only give you this money if you are well connected and if you kiss their @ss and promise to refund revenue to the govt.

So there are many factors why you should not support Canadian IT businesses. I just gave you the most important ones from my perspective.
They don’t play fair. They leverage private industry with the power of the govt which was bestowed on them by the Parliamentary Monarchy.

laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowFullDoc/cs/B-9.9///en

“Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:”

The Canadian govt takes mass amounts of money from people. IE, regular gas is 7 dollars a gallon in the north east, where as 53 percent of that is tax that goes to pay for Heritage, state run radio cbc, state run television Telefilm which funds lame shows like victor lucas’s G4 shows amongst all the other ones.

The Canadian govt also taxes people with SMEs about 60-70 percent in income tax because LLC does not exist in Canada, so to protect yourself by shares you need to set up an unrealistic large entity.

So the Canadian govt pillages then funds these soviet style tech startups and funnels money into companies that have no purpose other than to give people jobs. They do this to give others the impression that they are successful, when ultimately they just robbed people blind to finance it.

There was a 1 BILLION dollar employment insurance surplus which Harper gave to towns effected by these unfair regulations, which nobody approved. They also give the money to the softwood lumber industry just to keep people employed. When the US tariffs their goods because they know it’s not fair and just laundering, the Canadian govt cries to the WTO.

sitac.ca/pdf/07Annual_ReviewEnglish.pdf

do find, then Beerco

When I went to the last ITAC meeting at the Bell center a couple years ago, I was privy to some information that the govt of Canada stages technology white papers, hides them from the public that finances them, then takes steps to strategically manipulate the tech industry in relation to the United States where companies can not benefit from the govt startup financing. They only give you this money if you are well connected and if you kiss their butt and promise to refund revenue to the govt.

So there are many factors why you should not support Canadian IT businesses. I just gave you the most important ones from my perspective.
They don’t play fair. They leverage private industry with the power of the govt which was bestowed on them by the Parliamentary Monarchy.

I’m glad identi.ca is getting noticed. That’s not because I’m Canadian too. There was a time when Twitter was not Blogger but it found it’s place.

The pdf link was here
http://www.itac.ca/pdf/07Annual_ReviewEnglish.pdf
I miswrote “bell center” when I meant to write bell building.

Open source or not, you have to wonder who is really behind any french canadian startup.

If you are on Identi.ca you are now dealing with a foreign country.

Yep. One that (at least currently) has much stronger personal privacy protections. It’s unlikely that anything like the Viacom-YouTube log hand-over fiasco would have occurred in Canada.

Having said that, if the data is hosted on EC2/S3 (in the U.S.), that point is probably moot.

PS. On TC, Chris is a well known troll, racist, liar and generally a very unstable individual. Just ignore him.

I understand that many industries work in the whole Neutron Jack “you’re either #1 or #2 or hang it up” but this is the Internet and there can be a variety of awesome services that prosper.

I had to self-censor because the opportunities this approach opens up are just TOO BIG TO BE BELIEVED.

Here is a service bigger than twitter

http://venturebeat.com/2008/06.....s-gupshup/

I live in Montreal and it’s a wonderful city and the people are amazing. As for identi.ca, it’s a good domain name, it’s catchy and easy to remember. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took on twitter.

Due to its nature, it would probably attract more tech savvy people.

I suppose clones need to be made but they should realize that twitter has a community and this is just as powerful as technology. This will not take on twitter.

Funny thing, this network stickiness. There is something that obviously has a lot of rational advantages, yet you still wouldn’t consider leaving your old service because so many others are connected to you at the old service. Shows how important it is to be first in these kind of services…

The name sucks, its not gonna fly…

Are you going to “identi” what you’re doing… twitter has already become a geek verb.

And as it is a lot of people are moving to plurk.

Whatever the case, I just hope ping.fm will support it, I’ll just assign the account there, and microblog everywhere from my IM window to the ping.fm bot

@billy
That’s great when you have one really good friend. You may not know this, but it is possible to have other people you speak to called “acquaintances” that you honestly don’t have time for other than a quick burst of info back and forth.

That said, identi.ca is no twitter, and plurk is just too flashy.
Twitter just needs to rework its back end, leaving the front end to continue being simple, yet make it easier to follow threads. The others try to do this, but they get the simplicity aspect wrong.

dead pool on name alone

Guess it pays to be an early adopter at times.. wonder if you guys pulled that screen grab b/c of my patriotic post

http://twitter.com/georgedearing
http://identi.ca/georgedearing

Chris: You are right, Quebec is a terrible place. Beautiful women, sociable creative people, a closed-knit group of highly competent tech entrepreneurs, a life beyond the keyboard, a work-hard/play-hard mentality that is highly intolerant of grandiloquence without sustaining merits (btw, how’s your Google killer search engine doing ? You were fast approaching a terabyte of hand-crafted source code the last time you spoke about it). You’d never be happy here.

Stay where you are.

If it were Twitter, the release of identi.ca would make no sense.

If Seesmic, who recently acquired Twhirl, were also to acquire identi.ca, they could have a real Twitter competitor on their hands.

“Beautiful women”

There was this lady in my building on Newton in QC. Not uncommon in the industrial park. She would come out of her office only for lunch and waddle down the hall. She had a posterior the size of a mac truck. There were more like her all over the place.

Maybe it’s the lack of sun, maybe it’s the greasy poutine. Maybe it’s those fat welfare checks that the govt takes back installing video lotto machines all over the place where there are poor people, but damn, you’re wrong.

“sociable creative people, a closed-knit group of highly competent tech entrepreneurs”

I met the people that run Canada’s tech industry. They are about a sociable and charismatic as Tyler Cavell. I’m sure he will be the president of ITAC and probably Bell Canada one day.(no joke) If it weren’t for his coke fiend cousin keeping him down, I’m sure he would be in the Bell Canada board already, but he will be eventually.

As for entrepreneurs, like I said, if you have favor with BDC officials and others in the govt, you’re all set. No doubt, there are some people in Canada on easy street. Just look at Tyler, or Mulroney’s kid. It’s a closed loop.

The French is REALLY annoying but it doesn’t make Quebec that much different from Ontario. French people are far less educated though. I’m sorry. I know what people will think of my saying so, and not keeping it in like the average Canadian hypocrite. I don’t have to be PC anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/results?q=la+petite+vie

Even I’m amazed at how bitter Chris is towards Canada. Could all of his allegations of backroom deals and unfair playing ground simply be his excuse for why he hasn’t been able to succeed?

I’m not making an excuse for anything. I’m just saying that you should think twice before you provide information to a company in a foreign country.

Twitter has adhere to the same standards as us. They do not.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/.....17825.html

Chris got turned down by the Business Development Bank (Canadian Government small business funding program) for his “Google killer” search engine and is now Mr. Bitter Pants.

Just Google “beerco business development bank” and view the cached page for Techcrunch forums.

He’s been proven a liar, and all around douche-bag many, many times on this site. It’s funny when he talks about the BDC, high taxes and “socialist” government policies, when he himself was trying to milk that very system.

His business plan failed, BDC said no way and now he wants to blame someone else for his own shortcomings. He’s a small minded ignorant child-man. Just ignore him.

Regarding the site name, I think I should point out that it’s meant to be said “Identica” not “Identi”. Which is not a bad name at all (IMHO).

Already wrote about it, but hey, nobody listened http://snurl.com/2cssh

Here is, for the very first time, posted for all, the first few lines the source code of the Google Killer:

CLEAR
SHOWTURTLE
PENDOWN
MOVE 10,10

…

PRINTOUT ‘BeerCo Request Completed in 731.21 minutes’

Damn French Canadians, I coulda got my million dollahs too if it hadn’t been for these sk… sq…. scheming uneducated fat commy uglies.

Anyone I care about has migrated or is in the process of doing so.

http://identi.ca/mlinksva

@37,

“when he himself was trying to milk that very system”

I was just trying to get my money back. I would easily have traded not paying double taxes for not having the BDC.

“His business plan failed, BDC said no way”

That’s untrue. The business plan was not for a search engine, and it did not fail. The BDC did not say no way. We had an American investor and the BDC wanted him to give up all his financial information. His personal financial information. The BDC and other govt of Canada agencies has the power to spy on anybody or any company’s financial information. The fact that one of the investors was not in Canada made it impossible for them to peer. Like lead to superman. So the investor said “no way”, he did not want to give his information to a foreign govt, and that was it.

The BDC was angry at this and said that the BP was a conflict of interest with Nitix

http://gonitix.com/9129/9911.html

So they took the people of Canada’s money and poured it into this company/website, and gave them enough cash to open locations with big buildings in Ontario, the US and elsewhere. It’s easy to see why. They took Debian linux and simply renamed it to Nitix Blue. That was really hard.

So that is my story with BDC. Again I would much rather pay reasonable taxes and re-invest instead of give it all the govt and have them play rich socialite and dirty philanthropist with it or to give it to their Ministers like Minister Gagliano of the Bonano crime family. Or to their friends like in the sponsorship scandal. Most of these transactions do not make it to wikipedia.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship_scandal

When you finance a Canadian subsidiary or business you are furthering this.

LOL at move turtles.

Just imagine the kind of software you could build with nearly 1 TB of turtle code!

My video comment is awaiting moderation since 10:45 am

Chris, stop it man seriously. You already gave the reason for BDC turning you down in the forum post I mentioned. You said they turned it down because it was too much risk.

You’re hilarious though, keep talking yourself into corners. I’m enjoying making you look like the imbecile you are.

Good opportunity for an upcoming entrepreneur to implement the Twitter idea. Twitter is good, but I cant wait for long 30 sec to start following someone.

But still loyal to Twitter unless someone comes up with a brand new idea that encompasses twitter functionality + more!

If the service is better and more reliable than Twitter then people will migrate. However making Twitter distributed is not a magical solution.

It’s ridiculous to assume that some new startup is ahead of Twitter in the goal to scale what Twitter provides. Sure, if you cut some features, relax the constraints on guaranteed, consistent and in-order delivery you get something that’s much easier to scale. Great, but they haven’t even proven they can do that, and when they do it still won’t be Twitter. And I don’t mean the users.

Cloning Twitter is the surest way to become irrelevant. Why would anyone leave Twitter to get the same experience somewhere else?

The microblogging sites that have a chance moving forward are the ones that have a unique identity, such as Plurk. It keeps the 140-ish char backbone, but visually and functionally, has its own identity. And best of all, everyone either loves it, or hates it, which means everyone is talking about it. That’s why its traffic continues to grow, and it’s already passed Friendfeed.

People are already sick to death of following the bandwagon every few weeks to try out the ’shiny new toy’. Many will tell themselves that they’d rather just stay at Twitter, unless they can see something interesting and different from another microblogging site.

“You already gave the reason for BDC turning you down in the forum post I mentioned. You said they turned it down because it was too much risk.”

http://www.bdc.ca/en/business_.....iences.htm

It was this man.

“Sylvain Savaria
Director, Technology Seed Investments”

They were unhappy because our investor in the US did not want to reveal financial data. After that he talked to me and said that our product was similar to Nitix. Our product was a flashy new Mac OSX like desktop manager for X server. Nitix is a relabeled version of Debian for servers, and it’s not very popular.

The fact that they were both Linux based meant they were the exact same thing to Sylvain, the technology expert investor.

I researched it a bit, and I actually believe that their asking for personal financial data on individuals outside the country is not even legal. It would violate privacy rights of the individual, and normally you are protected as an investor in a corp or business entity.

I contacted the BDC ombudswoman, but like everything else in Canada, there are no checks and balances.

So I am very happy to be rid of Canada forever. I’m just saying, if you have a choice of dealing with the US at home or a foreign country, even for Twitter, buy American and forget it. It’s a risk even if you don’t realize it. Canada is not a very ethical country.

That’s it Chris, “blame Canada” for your personal failure. Yada yada.

Ever stop to think that maybe the BDC gave you a B.S. reason because they were trying to be polite?

I mean, they couldn’t actually come out and say “We think you’re a good programmer but you’re also a hateful, unstable nutjob with no experience leading a big team or building a successful company. We also think your public writings are unprofessional, rambling, and incoherent and therefore we don’t want anything to do with you.”

Did that thought ever cross your mind?

Does the thought that your writings here and elsewhere might come back to haunt you one day in the future when another investor (or potential employer) wants to investigate what kind of individual you really are?

Think about it.

“Ever stop to think that maybe the BDC gave you a B.S. reason because they were trying to be polite?”

I paid 6 figures of taxes these past 4 years to govt of Canada in personal and business, who knows how much I paid at 53% of 6-7 bucks a gallon of gas with the lengths I had to drive there.

Don’t citizens deserve due process instead of lies?
In the US there is due process for applying for services. But even there the govt lets you keep a lot of your money so you don’t have to be hooked on govt programs.
In Canada, not only do they need people hooked, but when you go for services you are denied those services arbitrarily.
This stems from their powers and charters being assigned by the Queen/governor general. It sidesteps personal responsibility in govt. In America the buck stops at the people, and not some divine overlord in a distant land.

As for being polite.
Sylvain wasn’t being polite. He honestly had no idea what the difference between a desktop system and a server system was. It was all Linux to him. I tried to explain but he was about as learned as a caveman.

His previous job at Orthosoft.ca being VP seemingly hardly instilled any technical knowledge about software in him.

“Does the thought that your writings here and elsewhere might come back to haunt you one day in the future when another investor (or potential employer) wants to investigate what kind of individual you really are?”

No. I am in the put up or shut up business. If I have a product and somebody wants it, they can buy it or not. I can hire PR people to be models. As a matter of fact I am hiring one on craigslist now to do a video pitch for my new software.

http://losangeles.craigslist.o.....06073.html

Notice I didn’t pay the $25 craigslist help wanted jobs post fee. I like saving money that way.

Your ad reads “Need hot woman for viral web video … I am looking for somebody that has a very bubbly personality and can look HOT in on video…You must be in a bikini and look hot”

You’re a real class act Chris. Hilarious.

I’m going to leave you alone now. This is just too easy.

My views on the supposed ‘death’ of Twitter and the potential for BrightKite:
http://cannongod.tumblr.com/po.....-potential

“You’re a real class act Chris.”

In my defense:
The software I am selling is directed towards that market. I am not selling EDP software. So I am hiring the appropriate actress for my advertisement.

If I had ANY Canadian or French Canadian paying customers, do you think I would have said ANY of this?
I may have actually had some respect for Canada.

Excellent comparison Erick. Despite all the Identi.ca buzz, it doesn’t seem like very much is going on over there. What do you call an identi.ca tweet anyway, an identeet?

There are already over 100 Twitter clones.

Talk about a pathetic me-too service…

Hi Chris,

I know we’re not suppose to feed trolls here, but I just want to raise a hand so others can see. I do agree that some montreal startups aren’t too legit (I worked at Capazoo for a year and this one was a total catastrophy with epic wars between brothers and scammed investors), but most of the others I know about seem to be doing ok and havent heard of anything like the situations your talking about.

For the past year, I worked for another Montreal based startup called Shopmedia who’s employing approx 20 people. We have a local community of small investors who watch what we do impatiently.

We are 100% legit and we try to be as professionnal as we can. Obviously we hope to get some money from the government but that’s not the basis of our business model. We have submitted for R&D grants and none of this is obtained from favors… we fill the forms, do the reports and play the rules of buraucracy. We’re not crooks and scam artists…. simply people with ideas and goals. If some money comes our way its going to be good news because it will help us grow and go farther in our objectives.

We work hard for our success, just like most startup’s out there (be it from the us, canada or kibutijistan)

About those evil canadian taxes; our company pays them, and I pay them happily, knowing of all the services and infrastructures I also enjoy. I have enjoyed the security of decent hospital care all my life, a while back I had no job for 6 months but got support from that same government. My kid will go through years and years of a free educational system… same things go for all my friends and family. So… yes.. I pay my taxes, happily.

As for giving data to a foreign country: Why not? We canadians do it all the time with american and european services… no need to get totally paranoid about it. You should try Quebec’s pot some day.. it would relax you a little… you seem to need it.

As for dissing Montreal’s women, “Mouahahahhaha…”, your funny. Most everyone who spent only a few weeks in montreal during summer will tell you how there is only a few places elsewhere in the world where you can find better women. But maybe your bitterness in that department results from the same kind of difficulties you had with your grant money at the BDC. As in “not getting any”.

Good day to you Chris,

Now I’ll go back to eating my Poutine.

Hey Erik,
Or is this really Steve? (not saying this as a bad thing by the way!)
Molly

yeah. Identi.ca and Twitter is extremely different.

I think the biggest mistake for identica is to register a .ca domain
I would never emphasize the “Canadianness” of my website, startup, or identity , even though I am a Canadian, because you’d immediately stand out from the American dominant crowd.

Now that identi.ca screams Canadian, it could hinder their growth… although I just noticed they are doing this because they’re called identica…. still think it would have been better to go identica.com

The two-word recap of this post is “Network effects”.

That’s it really.

Hats off to Evan Prodromou.

What a great idea..! What do you eat man… where did you get this idea..

Really smart and innovative… I need to start reading your blog.. to understand your other new ideas …

Much appreciated… Nag

I’m brushing my teeth now.

And I am brushing my tweeth

great info and innovative

Bug Report: Subscribe to 3 users’ tweets(in a sequence) and identi.ca logs you out…I wonder if that’s a feature they built into it???

I am having some much fun reading the ramblings of Chris and the fantastic and witty responses from Markus.

I don’t think I have ever laughed and smiled this much over a TechCruch post!

lol

“I have enjoyed the security of decent hospital care all my life”

I had to wait 4 months to see a specialist to get a tube of acne cream. Family members have to wait over a year for an standard outpatient procedure or a routine operation like hip replacement. None of your dental work is covered and dental is twice as expensive as in the US.

I have never received good medical care from a physician in Canada.

I had to pay close to 300 dollars at a govt funded clinic to have a wisdom tooth removed without any complications this past year.

http://travel.state.gov/travel.....ml#medical

“Access to a specialist is by referral from a general practitioner only and even with a referral it may take months to obtain an appointment with a specialist. Emergency room waits are very long.”

Gas tax is near 53%, which means that out of your $7 gallon, you pay $3.71 per gallon of pure tax.
Your “employee side” of employment insurance and QPP, QPIP is about 5 times more than what a software company would pay for workers comp here.

You are happy with Canada, because you simply don’t know what the rest of the world is like. Just like the people in the novel 1984, you are happy with your ministries.

I should mention that gas is $4.35 per 3.8 liters at the station on the corner of my street today. Which comes out to 1.14 per liter because our taxes here are reasonable.
Here we have an LLC so that SMEs are not forced to open large entities to pay triple and quadruple taxes.

I wrote a post about the differences in our health care system here:
http://adminblog.sitespaces.ne.....&12060

I should also let you know that Blue Shield of California charges $59 a month for health care. I was paying about 50 times this in Canada.

In America I don’t have to fund Rogers/AT&T’s television programs through telefilm and I don’t have to pay for CBC. After all, why would people have to pay to subsidize AT&T or Bell ??? Does that make any sense? Govt of Canada is completely unscrupulous and vile.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language

“Must also be in the official language, catalogues, brochures, folders, commercial directories and other such publications, computer software.

Signs and posters must be in the official language and they may also be in another language provided the official language be markedly predominant.”

What kind of twisted freak govt can tell you what language to make your sign or software in?

This isn’t a govt. This is a mob. These people are vile.

According to Evan, 10,000 subscribers in 3 days, Twitter should worry although to be fair to Twitter, identi.ca has had problems everyday for the past 3 days. However, it’s open source and other developers have already installed federated instances of it and start looking at improving the code for scalability, Twitter does not have that option. My post about identi.ca
http://ungeekdapo.wordpress.co.....r-is-here/

I made a mistake earlier. It’s 53% of the pump price of gas, like sales tax.

So it wouldn’t be 3.71 on a $7 canadian gallon, it would be $2.42 of tax on a $4.58 gallon price.

$4.58 x 53% tax