I’ve started to get some of my geek on again, trying to get caught up on podcasts I’ve downloaded over the last few months. In doing so, I’ve been listening to the most recent net@nite, which is somewhat geek related, but covers some pretty cool things going on in the web world. Their guest was Evan Williams, founder of Blogger (who later sold it to Google).

Evan’s newest project is twitter, it is sort of a present tense social app that does nothing more than let people stalk you. Essentially, it is a shout box that you can write to from their website, an instant messaging client, or your cell phone. Other people can then subscribe to you and can read what you are doing on twitter, via custom RSS feed, or have them delivered to their cell phones.

The software has a character limit of 140, so these are very short messages, designed to be done from a mobile device. I’m giving it a try and will be putting a public twitter badge here on the right sidebar of Randomn3ss so people who are subscribed to me can leave messages. Being a private person, I’m not sure how effective I can be at this, but it could be the next big thing in social networking, and if nothing else, a way to get your full blown stalker on and know when someone is taking the browns to the super bowl.

You can subscribe to me and join my friend’s list at http://www.twitter.com/mikepanic

Update: I have added my personal badge on the right sidebar, however I figured I should probably create one just for Randon3ss as well, and will more then likely switch it over in the next few days, depending how popular this really gets. Please all add http://www.twitter.com/randomn3ss as a friend to keep everything up to date. I will also be working to tweak the colors for it, as I know they can be hard to read.