Join the Web 2.0 Revolution

MySpace is nice and all, but wouldn't you rather express your ideas to a bigger group of people than just those who can view your MySpace profile? I mean honestly, if all you do is "blog" in MySpace, then you aren't really getting the full effect of the Web-olution of the new version of this great internet.

To start off with, I'd suggest getting a Vox account. Hell, you already found my site, so why not join up? It's free and you can comment on my blog, as well as add me as a friend.

Want to show your friends what you are doing at any given moment? Twitter is the place you are looking for. Twitter was set up to give brief, 140 character blurbs of what you are doing at any given moment. An example would be my Twitter site found here on my site. You can send text messages to Twitter (it draws from your non-network messages) and it will automatically update your Twitter page to show the latest happenings in your life. You can also manually update it on their website, or download clients for your computer. You can also update it from AIM (service is down for the mean time) or Google's GTalk. Twitter is also free.

Want something a little more in depth? Jaiku and Pownce are what you are looking for. Jaiku can be used for more than just short blurbs. You can post photos on there as well as commenting back easily. If you have a website and an RSS feed, you can also plug that into Jaiku and your viewer will view everything you post on your website. Jaiku is free.

Pownce is a more advanced than Twitter, but that doesn't mean that it is difficult to use. It is also a little less complicated than Jaiku, but that's not to say that it's less powerful. To see a demo of Pownce, go to mine here. Pownce allows users to post blurbs (no character restrictions) as well as links, files (up to 10MB for a free account), and events so that you can send out a notice to your friends that a party is going to happen at your house sometime. Pownce is in it's trial period, which also means that you must receive an invitation from a member. I have 5 invitations if you would like to receive one. Just send me an email and if you are one of the five first ones, I will get an invite out to you.

Hopefully you will join me and hundreds of thousands of others and make the internet into what you want it to be. Free services are shaping the way of the internet and things to come, and by joining these free services, hopefully we will keep them free for time to come.