I’ve been experimenting with Twitter (http://twitter.com) . Twitter is basically a very simple service that allows you to write a short, 140-character message that your various friends and contacts can then view. Currently I’m using it as a kind of passive progress-update of my life: I may not always want to know what each of my friends (who are in Twitter) are doing, but when the info is required, I now know where to look. (Depending on the situation, it’s cheaper than a phone call, and far less intrusive.)

I have to say that I’ve been really impressed thus far: you can update your status from any IM, any mobile phone, the website itself and/or very cute websites called Hahlo.com and Thincloud Twitter. Since Twitter is blocked here in the UAE, I use Hahlo and Thincloud Twitter to update my Twitter status. I’ve got no friends yet on my Twitter list at the moment, so if anyone out there is interested on using Twitter and be my friend (except those here in the UAE, you won’t be able to access the site. Ask someone in your home country to register you.) go to the site and register.

If any of you are interested to see what I’m currently up to (e.g. developing my long overdue project dabarkads.org) you can see my status at http://twitter.com/densyo as well as a historical view of all my previous status messages. (And if you want to try it out yourself, be sure to add me to your friends list, ok?)