One question easily answered: What are you doing?

Daniel Staemmler — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:34:04 +0000

After a lot of things have been written about Twitter and it’s community that answers only one simple question: “What are you doing?” I checked this “… social networking and micro-blogging service“, that even has an entry at Wikipedia already, out. I have to admit that I have checked Twitter out a little while ago and was wondering what makes people interested in continuously post what they are doing right now. For example, are you interested who is having lunch right now. No problem. A visit at Twitterment, a Twitter search service, will reveal who is lunching right now (Source: Binaryplex.com ,Library Clips).Â Okay, now the question remains what are people doing right now and where geographically wise are they doing it? The answer is out there and Twittervision.com is a pretty neat mash-up application developed by David Troy that will show what is going on in real time at the Twitter community.
Alright, and for those of you who want to ban Twitter to their Apple Macintosh computer their is the free software application Twitterrific out there (Source: Twitter Blog). If you know of a similar application for Microsoft please add a comment to this post and let other readers know about it.

What makes Twitter so popular? I think it is very simple, we are always interested in what our friends are doing. A lot of times it is “… the first thing we ask when we call someone” (Source: Read/WriteWeb).Â A little snipped of text provides us with the real time information and a simple social need id fulfilled.

However, I have not decided yet for myself if I am going to use Twitter to keep my friends and readers up to date with my activities. If so you probably will see it on this blog in one of the sidebars.

2006 in Review: Social Networking, Web 2.0, and many more

Daniel Staemmler — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:54:00 +0000

Once again is social networking in the Headlines. News.com from CNET just posted a special coverage taking on to review the year 2006. And guess what, social networking, Web 2.0,Â and more once again (see prior post on Time Magazine) are on the spot. The reviews range from headlines “social networking catches fire” over “Google shows Web 2.0 folks the money” till “Going mobile, in a big way“. I guess it is this time of the yearÂ to look back and reflect on what happened. All section of this seriesÂ have an overview on the left site of the page and link toÂ articles throughout the year that mark a step in the development in the featuredÂ field.Â

For those who are looking for a quick read-through on what happened in 2006 in the field of social networking,Â Web 2.0 and othersÂ should definitely stop by and browse through these reviews.

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One question easily answered: What are you doing?

2006 in Review: Social Networking, Web 2.0, and many more