I’ve written before about pages at AboutUs.org and that it could be a good idea to update the page about your site at AboutUs.org. Now they’ve become even more useful to your site by publishing a lot of articles on Search Engine Optimization and other useful topics.

Since spam is an increasing problem these days and especially since the release of specialized blog spam software making it easy for anyone to spam blogs with just a few clicks, we’ve decided to close down our own social network community MyXavier.com.

As you may know we have a social media community at MyXavier.com similar to Twitter and Identi.ca. Unfortunately spam is a common thing in these kind of services, so we’ve been forced to setup a set of quality rules to fight spam.

It wasn’t long ago when we upgraded MyXavier to version 0.9.3, but now we’ve done two more upgrades. First to version 0.9.4 and now yesterday to 0.9.5. These two latest upgrades also got a lot of nice features for you to play around with.

Since Twitter enjoy to make life difficult for developers by forcing them to do more advanced programming we got forced to update our WordPress plugin WP-Status.net. Basically the only change in this version of the plugin is updated support for Twitter (if you haven’t noticed they turned off basic authentication …

The more I use MyXavier (our own StatusNet server) the less I mis Twitter. I have to say that a StatusNet server is so much more flexible then Twitter since you can follow people on other servers and you don’t even have to sign up for an account at the …