We are happy to announce that from now on Comindwork is integrated with two wonderful microblogging tools: Twitter and Identi.ca.


Twitter has already become the synonym of microblogging. It has millions users around the world who use it for many different purposes. By integrating it with Comindwork we strive to make our users' online collaboration even more fast-paced and intuitive. The first cool feature of Twitter integration is that you can log in to Comindwork using your Twitter credentials. That way you don't have to remember different logins/passwords and free you memory capacity for more useful things.


This is how log in with Twitter credentials looks like


The next feature is a Twitter widget inside Comindwork system. After you specify your Twitter username in your account preferences, this widget will appear throughout the system. Surely, you may customize it like any other widget in our system. The widget contains your current Twitter status, your Twitter avatar and links to your profile. You can tweet right from Comindwork, using this widget. Your colleagues, who set their Twitter accounts, have special widgets associated with them. From this widgets, you can read their tweets, even if you are not following them on Twitter. You may also instantly reply to their tweets without leaving Comindwork.


  Twiter widget


Identi.ca is young, but promising microblogging platform. It has a few key differences from Twitter, that can potentially make it the king of microblogging. These differences are as follows:

• Identi.ca is based on Laconi.ca open-source engine. If Identi.ca manages to gain momentum, its developers base will become much larger than that of Twitter. This will allow Identi.ca team to develop new features much quicker than the competitors.
• Identi.ca is distributed. Everyone can install Laconi.ca software on his server and thus increase the resources behind Laconi.ca platform. Such a system doesn't have a single point of failure - a thing that plagues Twitter and considerably slows it's growth. As Michael Arrington states in his article, the only way for Twitter to scale is to decentralize it. Identi.ca is decentralized by design, so it seems to be a potential Twitter-killer.
• It introduced Twitter-compatible API. This cunning move made the huge Twitter developers community applications automatically compatible with Identi.ca (with a few tweaks).

That's why we added Identi.ca integration to Comindwork. Right now it supports the same set of features as it Twitter's counterpart: log in via Identi.ca credentials, widget etc. But, watching an amazing page of Identi.ca development, we are looking forward to implementing some Identi.ca-specific features, using its native API.

Identi.ca widget


We are working on other innovative features that will deeply integrate microblogging into our online project management and collaboration suit. Currently, Comindwork is the first enterprise 2.0 tool on the market to offer Identi.ca integration, and one of the first integrated with Twitter. We believe that bringing our enterprise software to the cutting edge of web 2.0 technologies will give our customers a competitive advantage in the ever-changing world.