What an eventful day. TwitchGuru now has a filled out MySpace profile. Go look, and add us. We're your friends, remember. I say we now have a "filled out" profile because Rob created that back in late September, but it fell to the responsible one to actually put more than a fancy logo onto it.

Expect more pictures and suchlike, to be cross posted here of course, in the near future (as I beat Roberto into it, and get around to filling out the "Who I'd like to meet" section. Be really, really nice and I'll put you into it.)

The second, possibly more interesting, thing I picked up on today was a service called "Shelfari." The whole world seems to be about putting your life online these days, and Shelfari is an online bookshelf which is (I think) linked into Amazon. You basically find the books you have and put them on your "shelf." The social networking aspect obviously then comes from linking up with other people who read the same stuff.

Let me say here and now that there are an awful lot of Discworld readers in the world at large. In almost all of the links to profiles of "People who share some of your books" I've come across Discworld novels. Odd. Still, I can say that it's addictive stuff, adding dozens of books to your collection and racking your brains to stick in more titles. I've been coming back to it all day and adding books in spurts.

I shall be researching this Shelfari further in the hopes of doing another of my no-doubt enlightening and enthralling in-depth looks at such things which, it occurs to me now, I've not yet given a name to. It's an informal series of articles (you may recall Gamer sGate and ZYB?), but I really should give it an identifiable name. Suggestions on the back of a postcard to the usual address, or the comments box below, appreciated. With regards to Shelfari, I want to see what extra features this lot will be implementing post beta, and where they intend to make their money (IE, where's the catch.)

The other "Unnamed profile article" I'm working on concerns Games For Windows. Microsoft launched this initiative last year, lamenting about how they feel they'd almost killed PC gaming by focusing their attention on consoles (the PC gaming industry looked up, bemused, from behind its stack of gold at this proclamation.) Again, I want to know what the catch is beyond a simple logo on boxes. What's the benefit for having your game classed as a "Game For Windows"? What's the downside to not having it classed this way? A Microsoft takeover, Simpson's style?

Hrms, stuff to ponder. Well, I'm off to add more books to my Shelfari. Feel free to add me there, and feel compelled to add TwitchGuru on MySpace.