Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2009

Things I really like about Twitter...

This is hopefully a short list of the things that have happened because of Twitter:
  • The Clutter Magazine Billy Bananas, http://mobypicture.com/?t2f8em @Cluttermagazine tweeted it and I caved in and bought one, and it rocks
  • @Steve_Buscemi - the funniest man online, ever
  • Peering into peoples minds, I like the inane chatter.
  • I have started writing, a proper story and everything.
  • Tweeting with different cool people, posture people, bike people, funny people...

The only part of Facebook I really ever liked was the status update part, and suddenly there is an application that distills the one thing I like out, lets me share it more, and I don't have to use any crappy apps or agree to wacky Terms and Conditions.

I have left Facebook before, and now I can see it happening again, people who like Facebook get uppity if you update more than twice a day, I tweet on average 10 times a day and no one has a bad word to say...

So, should I stay or should I go, should I stay or should I go now?

Friday, 23 January 2009

Web 2.0 and me

So I have dived in, taken on the whole Web 2.o thing. My Facebook status is updated by my Twitter account, Mapmyfitness updates my Twitter account and I can manage everything from my Mac, my email account, my iPhone.

I have a presence (in fact more than one but on to that later), consisting of a microblog, a social network, a work network, a video store and this, my place, my place to procrastinate, and it all just works. I do have to choose one more item though, somewhere to keep my pictures.

So far I have toyed with flickr and Picasa, flickr seems a little stark, Picasa is interesting now there is more Mac integration and it does work with blogger. My over riding problem is I don't really know what I want to do with my pictures, is it somewhere to everything? well that is going to cost at the current rate of 2,500 pictures each year, or is it somewhere to show off, in which case I can post stuff here? What to do, what to do...

Everyday at work I complain about poorly defined requirements and yet I am that man, not really deciding what I want, asking for something and wanting to pay for nothing. Luckily as I have made this rod for my own back I will just carry on and do nothing until I know what I really really want...

UPDATE: UK Twitter use explodes by 10 times (see it's not just me)