Since I’ve been laid up on my back so much recently, I decided to take a little time and check out a few web 2.0 services I hadn’t yet played with and see how I thought.

  • Twitter - you can find me at http://twitter.com/ahaverbuch (RSS available as well). This is strangely addicting - it’s like the facebook status updates, but much more real-time and conversational. You can also post from a bunch of different places - IM, web, facebook, cell phone, etc… (and you can follow your friends/associates postings as well). It’s weird - I know almost no one is reading it, but since I signed up yesterday, I keep wanting to post for some reason.  A few co-workers and friends are on it now, so I’ll see how the experiment goes.
    • Latest posts are also embedded on the right side of http://www.averbuch.net at all times as well, and included in the FriendFeed (see below)
  • FriendFeed - you can find me at http://friendfeed.com/ahaverbuch (RSS available as well). This services combines updates I make at lots of other sites into one feed for easier viewing. It also has the social aspect; I can add my friends who have FriendFeed’s (in fact, via facebook, it automatically found a bunch of them, which is sort of cool), in addition to adding “imaginary friends” if I want to track services for people who haven’t signed up. I get an uber-listing of any updates any of them make. Pretty easy to get information overload this way!
    • Services I have combined so far into one feed: blog, picassaweb (pictures), facebook status, twitter, youtube favorites, Amazon wishlist, Google Reader shared items, flickr pictures, google chat notifications, linkedin updates
    • This is also embedded at http://www.averbuch.net/around-the-web/ for easier viewing - it’s reachable by clicking “around the web” at the top of each page.
    • It’s also embedded into my facebook profile as well - through the FriendFeed application.

Not sure if I will stick with paying too much attention to these, but it’s pretty neat how easy and seemlessly all of these different services play together, so I shouldn’t need to think about them too much. As these are getting much more press and utilization, I thought I would pass along the fact that I have signed up for them so people can track if they are interested in keeping up with what’s going on.

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