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Identi.ca pushes forward

Posted Jul 9, 2009 14:59 UTC (Thu) by evanpro (guest, #59516)
Parent article: Identi.ca pushes forward

All very clear, thanks for the accurate article. One minor quibble: OpenMicroBlogging is a server-to-server protocol, like SMTP. It's probably inappropriate to call it an "API".


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Posted Jul 9, 2009 18:15 UTC (Thu) by rjdymond (subscriber, #51625) [Link]

Another minor quibble about the article: "one-year anniversary"? I don't like this new, redundant "x-year anniversary" idiom. "Anniversary" already has the "year" concept built in, so "first/second/third etc. anniversary" is sufficient.

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Posted Jul 9, 2009 19:02 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

"Anniversary" may have had its roots in yearly intervals, but it is increasingly used otherwise. It is like guitar morphing into electric and acoustic. For the time being, an unqualified "anniversary" is probably thought of as yearly by most people, but it is changing. I suspect that within 5 years, it will not default to yearly intervals in general perception.

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