Jason Salas and I had several discussions about how the Guam web community has been so slow to embrace twitter.  We both agreed that part of twitter’s appeal in the US mainland is the mobile access convenience.  Something that is not possible here in Guam unless you are graced with a smartphone, a la Blackberry, iPhone or Android.  We decided that we wanted to see if that was a doable service and if it was something that we might be able to offer.

We have now been working on this new project, now called TwitterNeni for a little over a month now.  I’ve been so engrossed in the development side of the project that I haven’t once taken a minute to write about this whole experience.  The service is up and running and the official public beta was released on Monday, April 27, 2009.   The launch has gone surprisingly well without so much as a hiccup along the way.  I’ve got so much to talk about regarding my experience developing the application and the supporting infrastructure.  But I’ll save that for a later post and I’ll just keep this post about the service itself.

If you’re curious about what Twitter is, check it out.  It’s a “microblogging” platform.  Participant members think of it just as bloggers do, but the brevity of the medium allows for much faster, more efficient means of communication and interaction.  It’s really one of those things in which the experience cannot  be explained but must be experienced to truly be understood.  As you can see by the scarcity of my own blog posts, I am not one to take alot of time updating my blog.  But I am constantly on Twitter, giving my 140 characters worth.

With the new service, Jason and I have created, now us Guam tweeters can do it while on the go, too.

This actually isn’t really a new idea.  Many years ago, Jas was quite the podcast generator.  We even got together once and did an episode together as we took a brand new BMW 325i for a test drive around Guam.

So we’ve decided to try this out again and we’re gonna try our best to put something out every week.  We’re both pretty busy and things always come up, but we’ll try our best get a show out as consistently as possible.  Tonight’s premiere episode featured a wide range of subjects, and that really is a good sampling of the kind of conversations Jas and I usually have when we get together.  From tech and web trends to music to sports, our sessions quite often go off on tangents and we can ramble on about all sorts of subjects.  Tonight, we surprisingly went on for about 55 minutes before we decided to call it a take and save some juice for next week.

Well if you’re interested, click on the link below to download this week’s episode.  You can also subscribe to the podcast feed, but for now it’s feeding off of Jas’ site.  I’ll get around to setting up a feed off of my server, so you can use that if you prefer.

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