Programmer and self-described internet entrepreneur Evan Prodromou has been involved in starting open source and open content projects. His best-known is Wikitravel, a Wiki site for collaboratively edited travel guides.
Indenti.ca, his current project, is his attempt to develop a free network service using shared, open data. But to the uninitiated, the site and service look—and function very much—like a clone of Twitter. The big difference is that the software running Indenti.ca, which Prodromou has also been developing, Laconica, is free and open source. People can copy the code and use it on their own servers.
Originally from San Francisco, Prodromou is now based in Montreal where he has established a company, Control Yourself, to turn Indenti.ca into a business.
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