For those who are very busy & NB
I can’t tell a lie. I think I’m very busy and important. Well, busy at least. Which is why in the past I’ve had numerous moments where I tend to think Twitter really is for the birds. Do I really need to know from my best friend in his latest Tweet that he just spent five minutes in the loo wasting his company’s time and toilet paper? (You know who you are.)
That said, I’m also one of those annoying people who absolutely hates to be left out of or miss out on anything. And I do mean anything – the above example included even though I moaned about it. I just need to know things. As and when they’re happening. God forbid I should be the second one to know, let alone the last. This is why I’m loving the new Twitter for Busy People interface.
Created by the team at Bluejava (and thanks to the good people at Mashable for bringing it to my attention), Twitter for Busy People allows you to speed read your way through all your friends’ arbitrary, but nevertheless riveting, musings. With just one click you can see what 500 of your closest friends (apparently some people really do have 500 friends) are up to at a glance.
Meanwhile, given how busy & NB I am, and given my absolute burning need to know everything as and when it happens, Page Reboot is also right up there on my list of things I love this week.
Page Reboot has been in the news a lot lately thanks to it being used as a pawn for a bunch of political shenanigans in Iran. As Ryan, the site’s clever creator, explains: “Initially the site was being used by protestors in Iran against their government and their unjust practice in the recent elections.” Ryan took the site offline briefly, but then decided to reinstate it as a vehicle for free speech and freedom against an unjust state. And that’s when the real hijinks started, with the Iranian government “using it to attack the websites of the protestors.” Ryan then took it offline again for a while, but it is now back up and running thanks to the addition of some new features to the site to prevent it from being used against Pro Iranian Freedom websites.
So what exactly is all the fuss about? Page Reboot is actually nothing too fancy: it’s just a really useful tool that allows you to refresh any website of your choice every 30 seconds. It’s not rocket science, it’s not brain surgery, but it’s definitely something I’ve bookmarked… (go to www.pagereboot.com and click on the bookmarklet, any webpage you are on will be transferred to pagereboot.com automatically so that it gets refreshed willy nilly… I just really wanted to say willy nilly in this post.)
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