So the weather sucked and I didn’t feel like playing any online games today. I decided to do some updates, upgrades, and play around for a bit.
The first order of business was to update my Mac and iPhone and they were pretty easy and benign (and the latest iPhone upgrade rocks). I applied all the updates to several Windoze computers or Virtual Machines, and performed all the updates for the various flavors of Linux running around the house. No problems with the basic updates. Everything went as planned.
Month: December 2008
Tweety
Twitter is all the rage. Is it the next facebook? The next version of social networking? Social network without wiress?
I created a twitter feed. You can follow me here, or you can simply text “follow sidboswell” to 40404. You’ll be requested to respond with a username and you’re off.
Twitter is like a combination of SMS (texting) and facebook. The basic question is “what are you doing now.” That can only get you so far. Do I really need to know that my friends are cooking bacon or driving to work. Is that valueable?
Rather, use clever updates to your twitter feed. Consider it a micro-blog. Follow some others that you find interesting and respond to them (using the @username command). I can think of 100 utilities for twitter, but for now, I’m going to stick with the social side of things. When I’ve mastered that, I may try some utilitiarian tasks in my professional life.
Until then…..
