By the beginning of December I was absolutely shattered not made any better by the passing of my mother in law and the family traumas that followed…. On the tech front, the year just got crazier and crazier with new services like Twitter, Seesmic and Facebook emerging as interesting services to follow. Of the three, Twitter has really caught my attention as one that delivers incredible value in discovering fresh and interesting voices alongside almost instant problem solving…. When it went fully public, I thought Facebook would become a replacement metaphor for portals but alas, they seem intent in become another advertising polluter…. I expect a fair few will drop off and simply ignore the service but for those of us who are hardcore fans, the service is proving its worth time and again…. I reckon if they can get threaded videos and what I term ‘side-by-side’ streaming where one person initiates a video and then is able to converse via streamed media then they’ll be onto something…. The problem right now is that most of the stuff on Seesmic is trivial and of interest only to a handful of people…. When and whether that hits the profession remains to be seen but I can imagine it providing a very useful client side service addition.
