Twitter needs to become more decentralized and open, says the company's former chief engineer, or it will wither and die like other "walled garden" approaches to the web. Alex Payne says he recommended that Twitter become a more open platform, but senior executives decided against it.…
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Status.net Gets $1.4M to Take Open-Source Twitter Into the Enterprise
Status.net has closed a $1.4-million financing round that it plans to use to take its open-source microblogging software into the enterprise market. The funding came from a group led by New York venture fund FirstMark Capital, and FirstMark partner Scott Switzer will join the company's board.…
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As Twitter continues to struggle with repeated system outages and downtime, attention has turned to ways of extending -- or even replacing -- the social network as a communications platform. But what would such a world look like? It would involve multiple clients and open standards.…
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