Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Some Thoughts on Nebul.us

Ever wanted to share your internet habits with the world? Or would you rather come face-to-face with a visual representation with how you spend your time online (Tsk, Tsk)? Well now you can! In short, Nebul.us is a service that visualizes how you spend your time online and allows users to share links with just their friends or the world. Nebul.us is both a type of social networking/sharing site as well as a site that helps you track your productiveness during the day.

Nebul.us is not only a way to procrastinate in and of itself, but a way to track ALL of your internet procrastination! Yay! I understand how the concept of productivity monitoring might be useful for some, but with well established link sharing sites like Digg, del.ic.ous and Twitter around, I don't think many will be clamoring to get on Nebul.us (if you are interested though and want a Beta invite, I have 15 left. Everything's worth a try, I suppose).

Now, on a more critical note: WHO WANTS EVERYONE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING ONLINE AT ALL TIMES??? I'm pretty sure the government and the advertising agencies are already monitoring everything we do online, so do we really need to make it easier for them? Seriously folks, if you put the right paranoid spin on it Nebul.us is some scary shit.

1 comment:

  1. This is like, big brother...or, no, little sister technology - because we impose this surveillance upon ourselves. I guess the question I have is... "why?!?!" sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

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