Twitter causing quite a flutter

First the regular update on Irish weather - it has been hot! This last week-end it felt like I'm back in my native Africa, not in cool Ireland. And I must say, the heat is showing. The famous greens of Ireland are looking decidedly jaded from the heat, not quite as luscious as normal. However, the Irish and visitors were out en-masse over the week-end filling very scrap of local beach to bursting point with bodies and more bodies! Battled to sleep with the heat. Only cooled down to 17 degrees Celcius overnight. Decidedly un-Irish weather!

What has been interesting has been the explosion in twittering. Those of you who read this blog regularly may recall that some weeks back I wrote about the fact that Leo Laporte of Twit.tv moved from Twitter to Jaiku over concerns that there could be some confusion over the names. However, it seems as if Twitter is exploding all over the show and getting more and more mention everywhere! A colleague of mine, Simon had sent me a link a week back about an article in Business Week about the Twitterisation of Blogs. Well, they continue to be in the news with PhysOrg, a science website. It seems as if some people really get mesmerized by what other people are doing. However, it seems as if many others are using it for business as well. I just wonder how much these people are spending on their mobile phone bills?!?!? I know some of the people of the Twit podcast were talking about phone bills of several hundred dollars. So, it may be interesting, but the question is, is it worth that much in interest?....

You may remember that I signed up at Virb.com and have an account, and that my early take on Virb was that it is a social networking site aimed at music initially. Found another similar site if you're interested in music, called Last.fm. I initially thought it was an internet radio station, but it is not. It is about music only, so more 'purist' than Virb. The initial interface is very clean, but it somehow seems a bit amateurish and not really full of buzz. But that is a personal opinion I guess. I'm not sure why it gives me that feel. I think it is the red banner at the top and then the clean homepage. I somehow just feel that red at the top needs a jazzy page. The page itself seems more 'blue'. Anyhow, my opinion.

Another site in the same category is ILike.com, one of the Webware 100 nominees. It is very much the same thing, a dedicated music site with a listing of songs and bands on the front page with some free MP3's available.

They are both in the LaLa category, although Lala works on a different basis of free listen online, buy the CD if you like basis.

So there you go! Some music to brighten up your day! Enjoy!