You’ve seen Twitter, Google, and Facebook’s moves into the land of microblogging and status messages. These are the atoms that make up the new streaming systems that bring us our friends, news, and more. But these systems are not open and that makes us feel like we are in the AOL age of the Internet waiting for the Web age to show up. Well, StatusNet Inc has an answer: status.net, which is an open microblogging/status and social networking system that you can run on your own servers in a decentralized way. This has the potential to make status messages closer to email or websites, which no one or three companies control. Who likes this approach? Well, brands, who want to stop gifting their traffic to Twitter or Facebook, both of which are places that are hard to monetize on and control your image. In this conversation with StatusNet’s founder and CEO, Evan Prodromou, we talk about a range of topics in the social networking and status streaming space.

More info at:
StatusNet’s website: http://status.net
StatusNet’s Blog: http://status.net/blog
StatusNet’s CrunchBase Profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/statusnet

• microblogging
• social networking
• status messages
• StatusNet
• twitter