Micro-blogging

Our brains seem to become more and more connected. This is of course a good thing. What would the world be like if there was no international net open for all? Pretty boring. Blogs have given us the opportunity to read about other people's ideas, knowledge and lives. Using instant messaging and social networks, we get increasingly bombarded with information sent by other people. Facebook introduced a new type of communication a couple of years ago - the "status update". Probably it was just a fun thing created by the Facebook developers. Short, sometimes meaningless sentences like "Jim is watching TV" pop up in the never ending history of Facebook events. The idea was adopted later by Twitter, and really took off. By answering the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less, you can send your friends updates ("Tweets"). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS and RSS. Anyone with a cell phone can send and receive updates any time, anywhere. Users can send messages as text, video or audio. Other sites such as "Jaiku" and "Yammer" have taken the idea even further. They all go in the category "Micro-blogging" and are now used by millions of people.