My Life

Last week I got fed up of Twitter being constantly down so I decided to seek alternative services. I knew of Pownce when I just started using Twitter but I thought I’d stick with Twitter just for the sake of using the pioneer of micro-blogging.

I would notice Twitter would be down around once a week and that wouldn’t really bother me, but it had started getting worse, plus the one big problem I’ve always had with Twitter was the lack of an official Twitter desktop application. Yes you could download a 3rd party program to use with Twitter but they would never be as good as an application Twitter themselves could make.

Pownce on the other hand has it’s own desktop application made using Adobe AIR and it’s absolutely beautiful. I also like a few features that Pownce has introduced to differentiate them from other micro-blogging websites, these include link sharing, file sharing (files up to 100MB) and events.

I’ve switched to Pownce and haven’t looked back thus far. If you wish you can check out my Pownce or even add me as a friend.

Thanks,

Marat

P.S. If you use Pownce or Twitter and at the same time have a Facebook account you can use applications like rePownce or TwitterSync to synchronise your Pownce/Twitter messages with your Facebook status.

This is the second time this has happened to me and I don’t really know what it is. Powering on the computer this morning I noticed neither Gmail Notifier nor Snitter (my twitter application) could connect to the Internet. Actually they still can’t.

gmail.com doesn’t seem to want to load which would explain Gmail Notifier and twitter.com doesn’t either which would then explain Snitter. But the weird thing is, Facebook doesn’t load either, and WordPress took one minute to load my Dashboard and another minute to load this “write post” page. Yet at the same time Google Reader is up and running while Google Calendar is down.

Like I mentioned above this has happened to me before, whenever Gmail didn’t work so didn’t Facebook and other large social/popular websites.

I’m finding this very frustrating and annoying actually. Half the websites I would normally visit in the morning are all down for unknown reasons.

If somebody knows the reason(s) behind all this I would love to hear it. Now I just hope I can post this blog

Thanks,

Marat

Yeah life is like that. I tried to come back to blogging but just didn’t have the will or determination for it.

Now sitting here looking at my blog I feel like I must persevere and start blogging again. Maybe not as often as I use to (once per day) but at least a couple of times per week. Lately I have been caught up in the micro-blogging community/craze, mainly Twitter. I have found it to be quite interesting. Twitter is mainly used to let others know “what are you doing?”. You’ll have people following your updates and you’ll follow others so that everyone will know what everyone is getting up to and vice versa.
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