An audience of two

Tuesday October 02, 2007

Twitter@CEC
If you're going to CEC and your mobile phone provider doesn't charge you ripoff rates for text messaging, consider signing up for Twitter. This is a service that in effect merges blogging and instant messaging, optionally delivering updates (known as "tweets") to your mobile vis SMS messages. It's been called "microblogging".

Once you've signed up you look for people to follow. In each case you can decide whether to have their updates go to your aggregator on the net or to your phone. The benefit at an event like CEC is that you'll be able to send brief texts like "I just went to the Sun Update Connection breakout - you should check it out", or "Groan, this is sending me to sleep - see you at Starbucks afterwards"

It's yet another of those services that you'll either like or loathe, get addicted to or completely fail to see the point of, but when you're visiting Vegas with 3,500 other geeks it's certainly worth investigating beforehand. There's a suggestion on the CEC Facebook group that the organisers may use the service to send out updates and reminders. If you want to follow me, I'm http://twitter.com/davetong and I'll be Twittering throughout CEC.

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