Micro-blogs are popular now, the best one is twitter. Perhaps you are willing to build a micro-blog for your friends, your company or jusy yourselfe, although only a few people can play on the micro-blog. However, some programmers may want to develop some amazing functions based on the micro-blog program, this article describes four open source micro-blog program.
1. Jaiku
Jaiku is a Python micro-blog which was acquired by Google 2007, but is was totally failure. Google has made it completely open source and provides users free download, we can go to Jaiku source project addresses, use a SVN tool to download the source code.
2. Laconica
Laconica is an open-source micro-blog program based on PHP and MySQL, it is a clone of Twitter and can be achieved commonly functions of the micro-blog, a number of micro-blog systems are built wirh this open source program. Laconica received the support of a many application systems, including Twitterfeed, Hellotxt, and Gravity and so on. Click here to download the source code.
3. Sweetter
Sweetter is an open source micro-blog program which has a voting mechanism, based on Python, and click here to download the source code.
4. Jisko
Jisko‘s interface is very like Twitter, it can automatically update through ajax and also based on PHP and MySQL, this system may be developed in Spanish, using SVN to download the source code here.