Twitter, where I can have open conversations with amazing people.

Just had an interesting twitter @ exchange with Werner Vogels, who happens to be the CTO of Amazon. It's incredible how accessible Twitter, Friendfeed, and other socnets make folks such as he. Scoble proved that it also seems to be working in the US Government. Interesting times these are.

It's a Twit-Out! When Twitter Goes Down, Where Do You Go?

I go to Friendfeed. Apparently, so do a lot of other people. It's cool to see the conversation light up over at Friendfeed when Twitter goes down. I've seen this happen a couple times now. I find it a fascinating to see it unfold. Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Twitter fan, but the outages are getting old, especially with the rapidly growing ecosystem of third party Twitter sites.

To send a message to Twitter, that we are sick of the downtime, some are suggesting a Twit-Out! A day where you boycot Twitter and move the conversation to Friendfeed (and possibly other socnets?). Thanks to Shay for starting this meme, and Bwana, Susan, and everyone else on Friendfeed who got the conversation going!

At this point, it's not entirely clear where we are "taking the conversation", but I think the idea is to boycott Twitter next Wednesday (May 21, 2008) and continue the converation over at Friendfeed. What do you think? I'm game. Not that I really think it will have much affect on Twitter uptime, but I'll be keeping an eye on the conversation to see where it goes.

I'm finding that there are somereally interesting conversations happening on Friendfeed these days and a Twit-Out! might be a great way to see how many people on Twitter will move their conversations to Friendfeed. I think there will definitely be some resistance to this idea by the Twitterati faithful.

It's unfortnate that we don't yet have DataPortability for syncing friends across socnets, because I have a lot more friends on Twitter than I do on Friendfeed. Either way, I'll be following the conversation unfold.

How much is too much? How many online accounts do you have?

How many online sites/services do you belong to? Here's an attempt to enumerate the ones I've signed up for at one point or another. It is by no means exhaustive, but I wanted to try and get this list started after thinking (again) about the topic of socnet fatigue and the sheer number of sites that I have at one point or another established an account on. In no particular order, here's my list: 

1. Gmail
2. Yahoo Mail
3. Hotmail
4. eBay
5. Amazon
6. Paypal
7. del.icio.us
8. Blogger
9. Wordpress
10. Netvibes
11. Twitter
12. Pownce
13. Jaiku
14. Talkshoe
15. Skype
16. AIM
17. ICQ
18. MSN
19. Youtube
20. Viddler
21. Revvr
22. Ma.gnolia
23. Flickr
24. Picassa
25. Ustream
26. Stickam
27. Justin.tv
28. Feedburner
29. MyBlogLog
30. Technorati
31. Digg
32. CNN
33. King5
34. Slashdot
35. Seesmic
36. Oovoo
37. Mahalo
38. Friendfeed
39. MyopenID
40. Twitxr
41. itunes
42. Y!Live
43. Joost
44. ImInLikeWithYou
45. Kaboodle
46. Godaddy
47. Fanfire
48. Comcast.net
49. Zigtag
50. Ping.fm
51. Last.fm
52. 103bees
53. 30boxes
54. Slashdot
55. Zoomr
56. SecondLife
57. Feedburner
58. PlayCafe
59. Askville
60. Orbitz
61. Expedia
62. Hotels.com
63. Wikipedia
64. Pandora
65. Reddit
66. Fark
67. Mixwit
68. Muxtape
69. Socialspark
70. Tangler
71. ...

Surely there must be more. I'm sick of thinking about it and am moving on to something else. Will update this post as appropriate.