StatusNet Launches Cutting-edge Location Service
San Jose, CA, 1 April 2010 — In his keynote address at the Where 2.0 Conference, StatusNet CEO Evan Prodromou launched the company’s new location-based service, Foursqualor.com. Said Prodromou, “Location-based services are a disruptive technology that are setting the Web on fire. Fire as hot as a thousand suns! And we want a piece of that action.”
“So, we’re copying the most popular location services and making our own. Foursqualor combines the exciting gameplay of Foursquare with the other things that Gowalla has that make it different in ways that we can’t exactly put our finger on. Brown? Is that it?”
Based on the award-winning StatusNet social messaging server, Foursqualor lets digerati prove that they have very smart phones on a regular basis. “It’s like a game that has a button!” says Robert Scoble, Foursqualor early adopter. “I click the button and everyone knows where I am! And it’s easy: one big button.”
Foursqualor also features loads of graphics from http://openclipart.org including the kid with a ball, aka the foursqueeler.
StatusNet hopes to bring together the free-as-in-freedom Free and Open Source Software community with the free-as-in-free-beer-because-I’m-the-mayor location-based moocher community to make a free-as-in-freaky all-out freedom orgy. “StatusNet has always been about freedom, and if social media is going to involve a lot of free beer, we want to be part of that and provide a more open solution. Anyone can run their own StatusNet instance so anyone can instantly become ‘the mayor’ of their favorite bar by installing a plugin or two,” he added.
