K'Ball: Join the Wave

The wonderful thing about football blogging rather than, say, writing a book (which I'd also like to do), is interacting with countless other people. It's made all the more possible by social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, and I like the fact that I can talk about football all day with people from all over the world who want to do the same.

World Cup 2010 will be the most social ever. It's now possible to get a message around the world at the click of a mouse and even have it targeted to people who want to talk to you. It's a world away from Germany 2006 and I get the feeling that the football blogosphere and social media scene have matured to a point where it's now culturally friendly and collaborative.

All of which brings me on to Google Wave, widely predicted to be the next big thing. It's a tool so flexible and intuitive that it seemingly has infinite uses, most of which are being devised by its users.

Here at twofootedtackle we're no less curious, and we've been working on an idea for World Cup 2010. I'd like to introduce you to The twofootedtackle World Cup Wave, brought to you by Kwaitoball. If you're a Wave user, simply search for the 'Kwaitoball' tag.

In essence, I want the Wave to be a collaborative chatroom as well as a World Cup news feed, where you can talk football to your heart's content and give us feedback on this blog, World Cup matches and our summer podcasts. It should be quite lively; despite still being in testing, Google has issued a stack more invites this week, according go The Google Wave Blog.

If you would like to help us get the World Cup Wave in order between now and June and require an invite to do so please email twofootedtackle[at]googlemail[dot]com

In other exciting news, I'm delighted to reveal that K'Ball will be working with Dan Ward of Aston Villa Central to develop, among other things, a series of exclusive World Cup wallpapers.

For those of you that don't know Dan, he's been producing superb Villa wallpapers for a long while now and I'm thrilled to be working with him.

Anyway, that's the housekeeping done...back to the football.