Xavier Media®

If you have an account at our social community MyXavier.com you may already know that during the weekend we upgrade it to version 0.9.3 of the platform StatusNet. You as a user may wonder why you really care about which version MyXavier is using. In fact it's a little bit interesting for you since with this latest upgrade you can use StatusNet Desktop client to monitor timelines and update your status.
The StatusNet Desktop client works on Windows, Max OS and Linux so it doesn't matter which platform you prefer. The client can be downloaded from Status.net's web site and it lets you monitor several accounts, reply to status updates, post your own updates, mark updates as favorites, and delete your own updates.

Since a year or so Twitter has been trying to make life more complicated for their developers and that's really too bad. But for StatusNet communities this has been really good since more and more people discover the freedom by using an open source platform that can interact with users on different servers without having to sign up for a new account on each server. This is because StatusNet allows you to follow/subscribe to users on other servers, and whenever a user you subscribe to post something new the status will show up in yout time line even if you have your account on a completely different server

StatusNet also got many features Twitter don't like for example groups. You can post to a group of members by using a "!" in front of the group name. For example to post to all members of the group xmblogs you just write a message and include "!xmblogs".

Another nice feature you will really love is if you use Spotify to listen to music. Then you can right click on the track/song you like in Spotify, copy the HTTP link and paste it in the MyXavier status update box. When you post MyXavier will convert the link into a link with both the artist and the name of the track in it . Nice isn't it?

Join MyXavier.com today to explore more about the nice features.

About the author
Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.