planetlotus.org/Broadcastr Public Beta
The list of features keeps growing. My favorite, a version of twitter that sits behind the firewall, in this case behind a successful Planet Lotus registration. In short, search engines won't pick up your posts and you can post freely from Loti to Loti, I don't plan on making this module public.
Other new features, Group and Project support. That's right, create a group, say Priceless Quotes, and post messages. Anyone following it will have your quote/post show up on their page. Image support is also up and running. If you've already checked it out, feel free to go back and upload your (twitter?) profile image. @username is also live, as is RSS feeds, posting urls, etc.
planetlotus.org/broadcastr/ Since the end game is a product you can download and use in your organization, some for the features lean towards enterprise use.
Features:
- Project Support, anyone can create a project, anyone can follow that project and post messages to its page.
- Group Support, post messages to your existing Domino Directory groups or create your own.
- Domino LDAP authentication
- Customizable post length, default is 256 characters, system admin can change
- Personal Groups, coming soon, create your own groups, manage the members and quickly post messages to @mygroup which in turn posts directs to @groupmember1, @ groupmember2, etc.
- URL's will automatically be converted to a clickable url with the url as a name or can be overridden to defined value like "Link", the tool tip will expose the actual url.
- @username. Post multiple direct messages in one post.
- Email addresses convert to clickable mailto links.
- Detailed views, most active groups, users, projects, most followed, etc.
- Ability to toggle use of image/avatars or generic more general icons. (defined by system administrator).
- Ability to view posts displayed like twitter with limited detail or more verbose information as seen on Facebook wall.
- View newly activated users.
- Full search of users, groups, project.
- RSS feeds of user posts, more feeds to follow. (the current feeds work, are readable, just don't link anywhere; yet).
- Installs as a lightweight ubuntu VM, not yet available.
UPDATE: This has been moved to http://broadcastr.net