I have been playing with some new widgets in the last few days they are making an appearance in the sidebar on the blog. Not sure how long they will remain there, probably til I get bored with them :-).
First up is the “Meebo Me” widget which allows blog readers to ping me directly while I am logged into Meebo. I have been using Meebo again since they upgraded to 1.0, fantastic IM client. If you stop by on the blog and see I am online let me know.
Second is the Twitter widget. What’s Twitter you ask? A service from Obvious that allows you to post updates about what you you are doing and where you are. Updates can be IM’s, SMS’ed or updated via the web. Right now I place this in the “cute” category but I just can’t help feeling that this is almost a platform for an open Presence environment….. Something that we need. Anyway you can see on the side of my blog what I am doing.
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1 Twitter is it evil or can it be used for good at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology // Mar 16, 2007 at 2:45 pm
[...] Twitter is it evil or can it be used for good (Warning I am not sure this post is fully thought out, yet) For the folks at Twitter, SXSW must have felt like a debutante ball with all of the fuss being made over their little baby. I have been a user of Twitter since November, actually I started on the same day as Scoble, well before the current craze that seems to have hit the world, look at the Technorati chart for the last 30 days:- Get your own chart! Or at a recent analysis in the growth of Twitter messages, 23 in March 2006 to over 8.2 mil as of today, mostly since late November. This thing is popular! Like many initially I wondered what it was all about. But that was before I had friends, signed up my phone and IM client. It was all a bit of a yawn, social networking is no fun by yourself. Slowly I found a couple of friends, started getting SMS updates and things started to improve. I have written a few blog posts trying to speculate what Twitter could be used for. But I am still not 100% sure what Twitter is all about, nor if it can be used for good. Now it seems now that every man, woman, child and the occasional cat have an opinion about Twitter both good and bad. Ross Mayfield says it has tipped the tuna with the explosive growth from SXSW but still no one has a definitive answer on how we can use Twitter. However I fear that with the “friends-race” executed by Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble in the last few weeks will is causing the service to be dismissed by “outsiders” as just yet another geek toy. (Note: yes I follow both of them but before the “friends-race” began as sometime they Twitter some really interesting stuff.) No one can keep track of so many “friends” and not be driven crazy with the drain on their attention. Let’s not even start to talk about them blowing Dunbar’s number out the window when it comes to usage able social networks. So back to my first question, can Twitter be used for good? Like blogging it can be used for many different things. Looking at some comments on Robert’s post where his wife has banned him from talking about Twitter Jim Johnson lists a few “uses”, which are promptly shot down, but do raise some practical applications. Let’s now look at uses for Twitter, starting with Jim’s, and yes some are a stretch:- [...]
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