Rasila Garage

Not familiar with Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Twitter page on Wikipedia

This post covers:

• Why I like Laconi.ca as our internal Micro-Blogging-service
• How to configure Laconi.ca behind password without breaking up the API functionality
• How to set up Twitterific to work with custom Laconi.ca installation

Laconi.ca in a browser & Twitterific

Ok, Twitter is sweet, even a bit addictive, but not that useful in internal use of your business for couple of reasons:

• Privacy concerns; I know you don’t have to tweet everything in public but still; You might not want to trust any third parties
• It is useful to have a possibility to customize your micro-blogging application, make backups and so on

At first, Micro-blogging is like wiki in a way that it does not implement any kind of process. In Twitter the idea is “it’s a tool, use it as you like” This works well with Twitter.com, where all the users have their own reasons to use the service. In business however, the business has a goal and people are working to meet this goal for their common reason. Therefore a process, as loose as it might be, must be implemented.
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