[aha] Thimbl: Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be Fingered!

[T_Bazz]

Ciao,

Ricevo da Dmytri Kleiner, inoltro molto volentieri e vi invito a votare 
Thimbl per l'Open Web Award di Transmediale! I voti sono possibili fino 
al 4 febbraio.
Per chi immagina una rete migliore oltre la scatola web 2.0 :)

T_Bazz

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  ##### Vote for Thimbl --> 
http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl
  ##### Watch the Thimbl video --> 
http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform
  ##### What is Thimbl? --> http://www.thimbl.net
  ##### Get the Telekommunisten Manifesto --> http://bit.ly/telekommunist


Hello! It's been a long time since I've sent out a email newsletter, 
hasn't it?

As some of you may know, I've gotten drawn into the world of social 
media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. 
There are a few reasons for this, one, to explore those platforms as 
ways to communicate, but also to very large degree, to understand the 
enemy. Much of what's wrong with Web2.0 is covered in the Telekommunist 
Manifesto (http://bit.ly/telekommunist), recently published by Geert 
Lovink and the Institute for Network Cultures. But now, Telekommunisten 
are going beyond criticizing the twitbooks, we have initiated a project 
to develop a truly social platform, one that is open source and 
decentralized, and perhaps best of all, based on the Finger Protocol, 
which was originally developed in the 1970s and is already support on 
pretty much every platform.

/////// Don't be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered!

The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it's own: 
http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html

Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger 
& SSH client

Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl 
project is just beginning, we need your to help spread the word.

What's really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web 
Award from Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we'll be hanging 
around the OpenZone at Transmediale spreading the word and answering 
questions.

Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, 
and we really need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the 
Award is being done on the drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, 
and is up against two projects that are far better known, so we're 
really need your vote. Please sign up to drumbeat and vote for Thimbl!

Here's how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl

Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can 
see it on the home page of our drumpeat project.

http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform

And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the 
Transmediale jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project 
and so are we!

Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this 
on, share, blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social 
media! With your help, we can make this manifesto for the open web heard!

Got Questions? Wanna Help?

We've also launched a public community forum for the Thimbl project:

http://www.thimbl.net/community.html

Come by and say Hi!

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  --> http://www.thimbl.net
  --> http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html
  --> http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl

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