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OK, I bit the bullet and decided to sign up for some web 2.0 services out there. A bunch of people I know are on twitter, so I decided to join them and see what all the hubub is about.

I'm not impressed.

According to an article on Webomatica, this is the second time that twitter has gone down in as many weeks. Maybe, twitter is having some scaling issues, or maybe they are having some other issues with their servers and whatnot only twitter knows for sure. The thing is, I feel that if you're going to have a big time service for people to use, then you need to have a big time server room to back it up.

Again, I don't know why the twitter service went down today, all I know is that it went down and today was my first day using the service. It may turn out to be my last day using the service.

Apparently, some people are going to protest the outages by putting together a twit out, whereby no one twitters anything for a day. I don't know how all that's going to turn out.

In that Webomatica article, they talk about using something called "FriendFeed" as an alternative.

I went to go check it out, because I wanted to see what's going on over there. FriendFeed's gimmick, is that they are a lifestream aggregator.

What does that mean?

It means that they pull your feeds from Twitter, blogs, facebook, flikr, pretty much anything that has an RSS feed and they aggregate it all into one pipe. So, everything you do online can potentially be in one place. I think that's both cool and frightening at the same time.

I don't know that I like everyone seeing everything that I do in one place. For marketing purposes however, I think that it can have great value. It may even replace "the list" in importance since people will be able to instantly see whatever site you update with whatever offer you have.

Well, there you have it, a vision of the future. One in which we're all interconnected thanks to RSS feeds and ubiquitous computing. The question remains, is it bad form to twitter that you're not impressed with twitter? If you have no friends on the twitter network, does no one care that you're twittering? If I decide to keep FriendFeed, do I have to call say that I'm "friendfeeding" instead of "twittering"?

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