Gadget Links: The Web-based Home Edition

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Twittering Your Home on MacDevCenter: “Interest in the messaging service Twitter is clearly on the rise… and while most people are figuring out how to use Twitter for its intended purpose–social networking–I’d like to share a few notes on my more prosaic experiment of using it as part of my home automation system…. Twitter has a simple HTTP-based interface for sending messages. Instead of having to script an email program, or an SMS utility, sending a tweet is as easy as having your home automation system open a URL.” Seems like Twitter could be as flexible as del.icio.us for different applications.
You’re not on a f.*?ing plane (and if you are, it doesn’t matter)! on 37signals SvN: “The idea of offline web applications is getting an undue amount of attention. Which is bizarre when you look at how availability of connectivity is ever increasing. EVDO cards, city-wide wifis, iPhones, Blackberry’s. There are so many ways to get online these days that the excitement for offline is truly puzzling. Until you consider the one place that is still largely an island of missing connectivity: The plane!” The article goes on to suggest that WiFi access on airplanes is overrated. Air travel time can be used to catch up on book reading or listening to podcasts. Some people have no other time to do this kind of stuff.