At the welcoming party for this year’s GnomeDex, I caught up with the excellent John Hartman who I’ve met before at GnomeDex and in Second Life. He interviewed me for AlphaGeek TV

He wanted to know all about the Twitteromance between Efisia (my now fiancee!) and I

So, I talk about aaaaaall that and then cover a load of things like Second Life blogging and using trees of media to manage podcast networks and build the Web 3.0 concept of ‘Social Multimedia Networking‘ using OPML.

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Yesterday, Dave Winer says that ‘It’s time to open open Social Networking again‘ – I agree. (Though I will add that I wasn’t aware anything had ‘closed’

At about the same time he posted that, while sat here in a hotel in Cambridge MA, I get a tweet from a buddy who says there’s an impromptu Boston Twitter meetup going to happen in town tonight.

So, my mind starts ticking for a second, and bang!! I buy tweetup.com – hehe
I can already see a global network of communities building around it, ON TOP of the Twitter ‘platform’ – think multi-lingual global cityname subdomains. Aggregate feeds of each, connected by the participants of the communities. boston.tweetup.com, london.tweetup.com, melbourne.tweetup.com etc, etc.

I *know* you get the picture.

All this will need a calendar system of course. Or we’ll all be late / early! ha!

I’ve met so many people via Twitter actually, including (and not many people know this) but my new girlfriend. Yes, I’m falling in love with someone I met on Twitter! ) – on the other side of the planet!!

Let’s turn colliding, fleeting, passing electrons into flesh-pressing real relationships.

This is BIG!!

And, my friends – the planet is SMALL! A LOT smaller than you think.