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StatusNet is taking microblogs to the enterprise, launching the StatusNet Enterprise Network (SEN) today to manage microblog servers for corporate customers. Initial customers include Canonical and Motorola.

StatusNet is the company behind Identi.ca and the StatusNet open source microblogging software. Any company can take the StatusNet software and build its own microblogging infrastructure, or simply turn to StatusNet for a turnkey implementation. Plans are between $1,000 and $10,000 per month, and include support and consulting on best practices for using internal microblogging facilities.

News is making the rounds that Twitter has put up a directory showing all the open source projects it loves, which in real terms means the projects that Twitter contributes to. It's an impressive list of projects, including cachet, its Java-based text-processing software for handling Tweets, contributions to several Ruby tools, and other major contributions. Of course, notably absent is the actual platform that runs Twitter itself ? so the love only runs so deep, apparently.

I don't mean to pick on Twitter too much, but if the company is going to declare its love for open source, why not go all the way? Or at least mention the elephant in the room: The primary platform is still closed. Other companies, however, really do go all out in showing their love for open source. You can get a similar microblogging platform from the all-open Status.net, which runs the Identi.ca microblogging service.

Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language's performance on Facebook's servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source.

Rumors have been flying for a while, and the news was confirmed on Monday by ReadWriteWeb. Facebook gave a talk on Tuesday night about HipHop to introduce the technology at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

Reduce, reuse, recycle. It's not just good for the environment, it's also good for open source. In that spirit, open source developers looking to tap into microblogging services can reduce redundancy by reusing the new D-Bus library, Microfeed. The idea is that client applications can focus on the user interface and use Microfeed to fetch and update feeds. The Microfeed library takes care of the backend cruft and developers can focus on differentiating on the front end.