The importance of social networks in shaping the future of Internet was recognized by the Times magazine when declared it the "person of the year" in 2006.
Until now, I've been reluctant to "join the crowd" and found such sites a little bit childish and definitely a source of "ambient noise" and information saturation.
However, the idea of meeting people I have lost the contact with many year ago finally seduced me and I decided to join Facebook. Since then, I have contacted people who I haven't know about for 25+ years! it is just amazing.
However, what have captivated me is another feature: the status update. I found just fascinating to follow my friend's emotional states and small day to day events by means of this short messages.
This interest lead me to another social network site, Twitter, which allows sending small status updates (tweets) and follow other people's status. I also integrated it with facebook, such that my last tweet becomes my facebook's status.
Next step is to integrate twitter with my chat application to send a tweet without entering twitter's web page, as I find the need to open the browser and login into a site a big barrier for a fluid social experience.
Tuesday 29 July 2008
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