idneticalogo If you haven’t heard the news (where have you been?), a new Twitter clone service launched today called Identi.ca. (You can read the ReadWriteWeb coverage here). Of course, because the service just launched, there are still some Twitter-esque features that have not yet been added. However, according to this FAQ, they are all coming soon. Those upcoming features include:

  • SMS updates and notifications
  • A Twitter-compatible API
  • More AJAX-y interface
  • Maps
  • Cross-post to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
  • Pull messages from Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.
  • Facebook integration
  • Hashtags
  • Image, video, audio notices
  • Automatic url-shortening
  • Multilingual interface (using Gettext)

Leave it to the early adopters to find ways around the service’s current shortcomings, though. In addition to some of the workarounds, here are more identi.ca tips, tricks, and other identi.ca news being discovered right now:

  • @geekygirldawn made this Yahoo Pipe to track replies (hey, but this isn’t working for me at the moment – help?)
  • @glenn explained how to set up Digsby to view your identi.ca conversations: go to http://identi.ca/settings/im, Add update@identi.ca as a buddy in gtalk, then add your gmail account on that page & it will send you an approval link
  • @corvida hit 100 followers in 3 hours!
  • @corvida found Adobe is on Identi.ca @Adobe
  • SheGeeks has a poll up on what we should call the identi.ca “tweets” (dings? deets? dents?)
  • @nowsourcing says ping.fm allows for identi.ca updates
  • @susanbeebe is talking about a Fail Moose for identi.ca outages
  • @scobleizer is being squatted on by someone who is not Robert Scoble

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  • @corvida sent me a greasemonkey script “Identica Reply” by 4fthawaiian which adds a reply button on identi.ca
  • IM is only one way right now (1 AM ET)
  • @gsw said that you can set up a Twitterfeed.com to automatically post to Twitter using RSS. Up to once/30 mins.
  • @aaron noticed that XMPP might be broken – nope it’s just one way!
  • shelisrael and 1938media are also being squatted just so that whole thing doesn’t flare up again
  • Get your identi.ca stream via RSS by using this format: http://identi.ca/username/rss
  • Whoa! 2 AM – IM 2-way turned back on! Bombarded!
  • @Myriam reports that is the @leolaporte may be another fake one
  • @cleverclogs reports that Google is indexing identi.ca (and you can see the results yourself at search results ranking, decide for yourself at http://snipr.com/identica_on_google)
  • scabr notes Identi.ca looks Candadian: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/identi.ca
  • 2 Threads of people to follow, thanks to the Inquistir: thread 1, thread 2 
  • more to come…