Thank you for your support, can’t believe episode 2 is out so soon! I do plan on keeping this as a monthly show but as news and content presents itself I will publish as needed. This episodes show prep was by Bud Light, the format is still in flux and your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Music for today’s show from RoyaltyFreeMusic.com and The Podsafe Music Network.

Twitter is still having is troubles, even though they did some pre-holiday maintenance I personally experienced issues the following morning. Beginning to wonder if these upgrades are to their brick and mortar structure and not their IT infrastructure? They are trying to bring in some new talent, please apply if you qualify!

No Candy The Fighting Cocks   MySpace.com/TheFightingCocks

The clones emerge… identi.ca – all the net rockstars and popular kids are talking about it. It works just like twitter, when it’s broke. Okay in all fairness it’s brand new and still under development, fair enough. Most significant aspects that caught my eye is the open source platform, Laconica and the Creative Commons attribution to posts. (as I write this entry Laconi.ca website was giving me a 404, hmmm)

Back to twitter.. when twitter fails so do other (otherwise) fine applications. I take look at Twellow.com – A directory of people on Twitter searchable by name and or category. Still in its alpha stages but extremely useful in it’s current state with tons of features to look forward to.

I’m wondering if Twitter realizes that it’s these 3^rd party applications that are keeping it afloat. Should all these other sites conform to these other open source twitter-like applications then there will be no compelling reason for users to stay with them.

Oh and yes, I know.. I’m a late adopter here. I’ve finally joined the Friendfeed gene pool and am pumping content thru there. Ironically, here’s a site that perhaps is benefitting from Twitters problems. I signed up in an effort to keep track of some of my contacts while twitter is down and as a bonus have discovered that friendfeed can truly be a wonderful place. Care need to be taken to avoid overload but I’m finding it very useful!

The Girl with Strawberry Hair Black Velvet Elvis   MySpace.com/ joewgorman

I end the show talking about etiquette. In a nutshell.. remember.. the WORLD is YOUR NETWORK!! Don’t do anything online that your wouldn’t do in your carbon-based existence! Do unto Ether as your would do unto Carbon! LOL

Be good!

 

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