Posts Tagged ‘twitter.com’

The real-time web is definitely the future and the future is now. Twitter.com and Facebook.com are already considered part of the real-time web. Not just because you can update your profile, but because people update their Facebook.com stuff many times a day. It is a moving target. Facebook, with it’s millions of users, is changing every second. That’s real-time. Twitter.com is designed and build as a real-time tool. If you follow enough people, your twitter.com home page will constantly update as you read it. It is a living page.

Google.com recently announced their new infrastructure, Google Wave, where email, web pages, and instant messages all converge in a way that makes websites, photo albums, and conversations all work in a real-time way. It is hard to explain all that will come from this, but the impact is huge. Web pages are becoming living documents.

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Power twitterers have learned that the best way to grow your list is to follow everyone you can. The unwritten rule is to at least follow everyone who follows you. If you don’t, the person who follows you may un-follow you if you don’t return the favor.

The problem here is that as your list grows, you end up with a bunch of garbage and you need a solution to manage all these tweets. Keep the ones you really want to read and hide the tweets from people you never really cared about. But to do that, you need a third-party tool. The most popular of which is probably TweetDeck.

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Sony has begun shipping personal computers equipped with the Chinese-government mandated filtering software days before the July 1 deadline.
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=13100C1G2AUA

The software, called Green Dam, is apparently designed to filter out adult content to protect the innocent minds of children in China. The linked article discusses vulnerabilities, but I’m not concerned about that. I’m concerned about how far they will go with this censorship technology and who in the world will adopt it in order to control free speech.

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