A week ago, Identi.ca was updated to version 0.6.2 (rel Nov 18, 2008) of the Laconi.ca platform. The current version on the live site is 0.6.3 (rel Nov 24, 2008), which is the second list of items below. That’s two releases in one week!
Version 0.6.2
Here’s a list of some of the more notable features introduced in 0.6.2 (full list):
- Posted URLs are automatically shortened. You have your choice of ur1.ca, 2tu.us, ptiturl.com, bit.ly, tinyurl.com, is.gd (default), snipr.com, and metamark.net.
- Tag streams now have an RSS feed
- Replies made through the Web site will refer to the clicked-on message (threaded conversations?)
- Experimental theme for iPhone use - switching my user agent to Safari Mobile didn’t make it show up. Can an iPhone user confirm or deny this exists?
- ‘Invite-only’ mode for closed sites (Think enterprise microblogging)
Version 0.6.3
I happened across the list of features included in 0.6.3 via the Read Me (full list). It’s called a bug-fix release, but here’s some of the public-facing stuff. It’s worth upgrading to 0.6.3 if you run your own instance.
- ‘nudge’ functionality to tell a user that they’re missed
- User profiles have the option of RSS, Atom, or FOAF feeds directly on their profile (see image below)
- Favor/disfavor icons changed to images
- Twitter friend sync. Users who set up their Twitter accounts will be automatically connected to other local users who have Twitter accounts and who they’re subscribed to on Twitter
- List view of subscriptions/subscribers (instead of showing everyone’s avatar, now you get more info on them)
- Subscribe/unsubscribe button on subscriptions/subscribers list
- Add Featured users tab to public area
- Add Most favorited notices tab to public area
- Some pretty fancy tagging functions. You can actually tag yourself, then send to a list of people who have tagged themselves using @#tag. So if you send a message ‘@#helloworld hello world’, everyone with that tag will get the message.
Keep an eye out for more as the Laconi.ca team tends to crank out code at a pretty good clip. Maybe the next release will include a link to your own profile somewhere in the links at the top (not to your personal stream), which is my biggest annoyance.
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On the iPhone the site looks the same. No special version at all yet. At least on my end.
DITTO here for the iPhone version.
But Identi.ca goes from strength to strength, great stuff. Im having issues adding tags, like, I can’t.
Get an error each time, but thats OK. 
Graham
Thanks for the reports guys, I was hoping it wasn’t just me. I’m not really concerned about it at the moment because, like Graham said, Identi.ca keeps finding new strengths and great features to add. That said, I was able to add a tag to my profile without any problems, but I have no idea what others are tagging themselves with so it’s quite possible I’ll never see a single message from that.