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Life on Line, October 15, 2009

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Here’s the latest episode of Life on Line, posted late this time around. As always, please see the disclaimer at the bottom.

Disclaimer: this is not my publication, so opinions expressed in Life on Line are those of the individuals speaking and do not necessarily represent Metaversum GmbH, Metaversum Asia Pte Ltd or affiliated organizations or partners. Similarly, Metaversum GmbH, Metaversum Asia Pte Ltd and affiliated organizations and partners do not select the content displayed in this video. Twinity is not featured in this episode.

Life on Line, October 1, 2009

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Here’s the latest episode of Life on Line. As always, please see the disclaimer at the bottom.

Disclaimer: this is not my publication, so opinions expressed in Life on Line are those of the individuals speaking and do not necessarily represent Metaversum GmbH, Metaversum Asia Pte Ltd or affiliated organizations or partners. Similarly, Metaversum GmbH, Metaversum Asia Pte Ltd and affiliated organizations and partners do not select the content displayed in this video. Twinity is not featured in this episode.

still unimpressed with twitter

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as i mentioned before, i started using twitter a while ago. but i’m really unimpressed with it. i see a mix of people using it, and for different purposes.

  1. those who just have conversations with each other, where every tweet begins with @johndoe
  2. those who just use it to push their own services, where every tweet has a tinyurl.com, ow.ly, ping.fm or is.gd link in it
  3. those who use it like a digg substitute, with a url as above in it
  4. those whose tweets are really what the site was intended for, just personal updates.

so far, i’m not finding too much value in any of those. i hear that you get a lot of breaking news first on twitter, but that’s not a key need for me too often.

and by the way, i always heard the story that twitter started as an offshoot of another company, with the core question being a way to tell people what you’re doing right now, which was observed through people’s status updates in their instant messengers. so why can’t my twitter updates actually update my instant messenger status? i have yet to see a tool that updates my status in skype, adium, pidgin, trillian, aim, etc.

time to be open?

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a few months ago, danah boyd published her latest thoughts about facebook’s violation of user privacy, and in a previous post, she had talked about owning your own identity.

i’m starting to think that we’re soon going to live in a world where you have to pick either total privacy or total openness. and every one of us is going to have to decide which side we fall in. i tend towards the openness side, especially in business life. for instance, i’ve previously talked about how i’m not a real fan of stealth mode for startups.

but here’s the rub – who has time to be so open? i had this conversation with a guy last night. he mentioned that he uses twitter. i do, too. but, i never visit their web site. i send my tweets via ping.fm, and i love that i can update my own blog using it. so it’s funny – i want to be open and “out there” and tell anyone interested what’s going on. and i don’t even mind if random stalkers show up to find out about me. but who has the time?