I am http://identi.ca/rwandering.  I am still http://twitter.com/rwandering.  I don’t expect to drop Twitter.  Oh, and I’m http://friendfeed.com/rwandering.

On its own, identi.ca is interesting because of its promise more than anything else.  I do like:

• It has a clean UI.
• It supports OpenID as a logon.
• It supports XMPP.
• Twhirl supports it with XMPP!  Very cool.
• I would like to see it supporting GNIP.

A couple of observations about these kinds of services:

• I want a simplified user experience here.  I want one consolidated view across these types of services and the ability to update once and submit everywhere. 

• I believe Twhirl is working on this.
• We need a web-only solution.  This might be Friendfeed, but only if Friendfeed can aggregate views of those I follow across services.
• We need a Twhirl for mobile.  Maybe TwitterBerry can go this way?

• I can use a separate GMail account for these kinds of updates.  Not ideal.
• Can Jabber servers understand a preferred client for messages sent by a specific contact?  That way identi.ca updates could go only to Twhirl, if Twhirl is connected.

BTW: this post is testing WordIdentica a WordPress plugin for Identi.ca.  This should send a dent to identi.ca when I update my blog.  I use http://twitterfeed.com to do the same for Twitter.