laconi.ca microblogging platform, now with tags and multilingual

Laconica, the free software powering identi.ca and related microblogging sites just got a few new features tonight. Users can now choose the language of the interface, between English, English (NZ), English (US) and French (FR). While this doesn’t seem like a lot of choice, Evan expects the community to quickly create the needed translation for as many languages as possible. Klingon and Esperanto included :)

The second feature to show up is tagging. As you may know, laconi.ca is built with search by default. It now comes with native hashtags support as well. laconi.ca now also identifies the source client, be it api, web, xmpp or thwirl. You can also now delete notices (dents) and change your timezone.

microID are provided for profile, rss and xmpp feed, enabling you to claim URLs you control with your email or jabber uid. For instance, the third party claimID shows which URL I really control. Otherwise, anyone could setup a profile using my name, whereas this way, I have a microID to show it belongs to me.

Finally, identica now provides opensearch for people and notices. If anyone has suggestions to use this, I’m all ear.