[ELECTRON] Thimbl - the anti-twitter

[Simon Yuill]

Maybe of interest to some of you.

best wishes
Si


Forwarded message:

Hello! It's been a long time since I've sent out a email newsletter,
hasn't it?

As some of you may know, I've gotten drawn into the world of social media,
and have
been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few
reasons for
this, one, to explore those platforms as ways to communicate, but also to
very large
degree, to understand the enemy. Much of what's wrong with Web2.0 is
covered in the
Telekommunist Manifesto (http://bit.ly/telekommunist), recently published
by Geert
Lovink and the Institute for Network Cultures. But now, Telekommunisten
are going
beyond criticizing the twitbooks, we have initiated a project to develop a
truly
social platform, one that is open source and decentralized, and perhaps
best of all,
based on the Finger Protocol, which was originally developed in the 1970s
and is
already support on pretty much every platform.

/////// Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered!

The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it's own:
http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html

Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger &
SSH client

Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl
project is
just beginning, we need your to help spread the word.

What's really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web
Award from
Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we'll be hanging around the
OpenZone at
Transmediale spreading the word and answering questions.

Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, and
we really
need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the Award is being
done on the
drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, and is up against two projects
that are
far better known, so we're really need your vote. Please sign up to
drumbeat and
vote for Thimbl!

Here's how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl

Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can see
it on the
home page of our drumpeat project.

http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform

And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the
Transmediale
jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project and so are we!

Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this
on, share,
blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social media! With your
help, we
can make this manifesto for the open web heard!

Got Questions? Wanna Help?

We've also launched a public community forum for the Thimbl project:

http://www.thimbl.net/community.html

Come by and say Hi!