Laconica is an open source microblogging tool written in PHP. All data is stored in a MySQL database. Laconica was created as a direct response of a need to create an open source, distributed alternative to Twitter. It is used by the identi.ca microblogging service, which is based closely on Twitter's service.
Laconica supports OpenID for logins and is designed to apply a Creative Commons license to all the traffic that it carries. It's also built to support the OpenMicroBlogging protocol so it can address scalability issues by federating together multiple autonomous servers.
The underpinnings of Laconica include PHP, PEAR, and XMPP. The source can be checked using Darcs. An unofficial Google Code mirror also exists, which can be accessed using Subversion. This is a read-only copy of the source code.
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