If you visit the DreamHost blog today, chances are you’ll give a quick guffaw, shake your head in dismay at the state of the Internet and quickly close the browser tab.
But if you take a moment to read all the way to the end of the post, you’ll find that the company has just announced the implementation of a one-click install for its open-source, white label microblogging service Status.net.
The blog, which features a tattooed beer belly and a cat sitting at a keyboard, is really showing off the proof-of-concept (hopefully) tongue-in-cheek site, PetStatus, a micro-blog for pets.
Buried down at the very bottom of the post is the following nugget of exciting information:
Status.net, our new one-click software package, powers the entire operation. DreamHost customers can now install Status.net to their own domains with a single mouse click – making specialized Twitter clones at whim in a matter of seconds!
Triss Hussey first noticed the real announcement, saying if it hadn’t been for an email subscription to the blog it would have just passed on by.
We first wrote about Status.net a year ago, saying that the service could be an “incredible opportunity to analyze a rich and dynamic set of data about interpersonal conversation.” The company just announced the launch of its public beta last Tuesday. And our Own Alex Williams just took a closer look at the service’s future in the enterprise last week and argued that it “has the features that the enterprise customer wants and it has a strong developer community.” A one-click installation means we may start seeing specialized Twitter-clones reproducing like rabbits across the Internet.
We can only hope that PetStatus isn’t an omen of what’s to come.
