The world of the web is a fasting moving beast, much of which has pasted me by. I never really got "into" Facebook forexample, and it seems that may now have been and on its way out (although a company like that worth a quarter of the original $15bn is still not bad for a geek come good if you ask me!).
Anyhow another phenomenon is Twitter (basically a private (or public) notice board where you update quick posts, a bit like a nano-blog, as you go). now when i first heard of this i really thought what IS the point. However having achieved a more life balance (well apart from emptying the recycling) I was reading Ade's post about Twitter. And I thought, it could really work, if you have an efficient way of posting quick thoughts (a bit like sending an SMS) onto your twitter feed.
In an environment where there a few who live / work around Manly, it should be a perfect way to keep a rolling update of where i am, if i'm going for coffee etc. etc. etc. that as someone who has worked at home before and gone slowly insane due to lack of human contact, should provide a great way to keep a community alive.
So I send an email to a few friends who i think could benefit, and of course, being the geekiest out of the lot i get the standard, but what about messenger, skype, face book, ... the phone! The thing is people don't (well i'm crap on the phone, and if i have to ping lots of people to find out if they're around in manly for a coffee, why not say that i'm available to all!) I can see the point, but its like most things that involve change, people don't always grasp it. And the more I think about it, its the way forward, especially with cool like utils like twitterific and digsby, which allow you to update ALL your messengers, twitter, facebook wall posts, in one quick easy way.
BTW - if you want to see what i'm twittering about, feel free to contact me and you can subscribe to it.... its kinda fun!
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