I liked Amit’s post over on his tumblr blog, he makes a good point:

I earn my living—the food I eat, the apartment I sleep in, the books I read, etc. — by pushing plastic buttons all day long.

I don’t know Amit Gupta personally - I just randomly started following his updates on twitter - so it feels a bit strange to first-name him in this post. What’s the etiquette on that?

Speaking of twitter, you can find me here and I’m always keen to find new people to follow / be followed by as I think the real appeal of apps like these is the community aspect.

If you’re a Twitter user, you might be interested in a site I happened across today - Who Should I Follow?

You put in your username (just the username, mind - it doesn’t ask you for your password or any such nonsense) and it has a think, then suggests other twitter users that you might like to follow.

I’ve been on Twitter for a little while now and have enjoyed it, but it’s much better when you are following a fair few people so that the updates come thick and fast. On that note, I’ve been using Spaz.AIR as my desktop twitter client as of this week and I’m impressed so far. It’s built upon the Adobe AIR platform, which you can find out more about here if you’d like.

Oh and of course, if you are a twitterer -  you can always follow me if you’d like, by visiting my profile.

I’ve made some changes to the site today. Rather than having a twitter area in the top right above the sidebar, I’ve moved to having each tweet appear inline, as they happen. I’ve also started using Pownce recently, so my updates there are also being pulled in to this site inline.

Hopefully this will make things a little more integrated and make for a better experience, but I guess you will be the judge of that-  so feel free to comment with your feedback.

Yesterday I was talking with Jessi about Craigslist and I remembered that a random stumble had taken me to a site which showed the office that Craigslist runs out of in San Francisco. It was quite different to your usual office space, looking more like someone’s house inside, so this evening I set about rediscovering the site in question. That site turned out to be Office Snapshots and as you can imagine, I then spent a fair while browsing through various pictures of other company offices.

Upon clicking on Twitter’s entry, there was an embedded video from a video podcast Robert Scoble did for PodTech, interviewing various people at Twitter on their roles and what Twitter is all about. Regular visitors will no doubt have noted that I use Twitter myself and make use of their API to display my twitters (twitterings?) on this site. However, the podcast showed that there is so much more to the app than I’d really investigated. They showed some interesting mashups that utilised twitter, my favourite of which was Twittervision. This harnesses the APIs of Twitter and Google Maps to show live updates to Twitter’s public timeline on a map of the world. It may not sound thrilling in writing, but it’s strangely mesmorising when you pay the site a visit.

So one conversation triggered a memory which led to a chain reaction of link after link after link. This got me to thinking - this is why I like the web. With all the amazing apps and e-commerce improvements and amazing communication possibilities that are (rightfully) gathering all the attention, it’s easy to take for granted the simplest concept behind the WWW - hyperlinking.