Category Archives: messagingBefore the electrical telegraph was invented, there was the optical telegraph. Optical telegraph were the “smoke signals” of their day, making it possible to communicate messages over a long distance.
According to an article on optical telegraphs,optical telegraph networks existed all over Europe and North America until the electrical telegraph was invented. They were able to […]
More on Windows Mobile versus S60: the personal information management (PIM) parts of the phone. Again, I will be comparing the Nokia E61 to the HTC Mogul Qwest lent me for review.
Disclaimer: I work for a competitor of both HTC and Microsoft in the smartphone space. That being said, my day job currently has […]
A couple of people I know got signed up for Quechup. My address was apparently “harvested” from the address book of these folks and I’ve been invited–multiple times, even–to join this service.
I’ve looked through this service and I see absolutely no reason to join this place. It looks like a lame me-too service with no […]
Om Malik ruminates about why people have Facebook fatigue. While I don’t claim to speak for everyone else, I can explain why I’m not using it.
To put it bluntly, their mobile interface sucks. Their mdot interface only provides a small subset of the required functionality. The SMS interface requires I send way too many ‘n’ […]
I have to smile at this use of Twitter and FaceBook by Dan York, which I saw unfold as I saw the first Twitter message he sent out. I’m glad it worked out for him, and it basically confirms why I don’t think Twitter is a waste of time, even though it does waste a […]
I look at anti-Twitter articles like this one and I realize what it is people aren’t understanding about Twitter. People who hate it break out the “who cares what you are doing” argument. I’m not going to argue with that, but what I can tell you is that it’s not really about that.
When it first […]
(Title sung to the tune of Tiny Bubbles by the late Don Ho)
No, I’m not talking about the Mobile Twitter interface that the Twitter folks finally got done, I am talking about a Twitterrific-like application for your mobile phone called TinyTwitter. I’ve been wanting to use this application for a while now, but every time […]
When I saw David Beckemeyer’s agreement with Tom Keating’s dissing of Twitter, I did stop and think. And then I Twittered: Twitter is like an IRC backchannel for everyday life. It’s my link to a continual conversation that I can participate via whatever method makes the most sense. It’s also become a real nice way […]
One of the highlights of my trip to New York a couple of weeks back was meeting up with Craig Walker from Grand Central and Jonathan Greene. At that meeting, he showed off GrandCentral Mobile. Jonathan Greene goes into more detail about what it is and some of the other things that transpired in that […]
The E-Series blog (FYI, Nokia officially refers to it as Eseries) points out there is a “new” version of the Gmail app for the Nokia E61 and friends. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t really fix much over the version I had on their before.
Aside from still not dealing with attachments worth a […]
A few morsels of interest:
The Mac was hacked? Really: Everyone blew this supposed “Mac” security issue out of the water, it seems. The Mac was “hacked,” but it wasn’t exactly specific to the Mac as the issue could be replicated in any browser on any system. It was a local exploit, at best, and it […]
I’m almost to Inbox Zero on Google Reader. Here are a few things that caught my interest this weekend:
You Might Be A Web Worker: It’s not about your “lifestyle.” Well, maybe it is. But it’s definitely not about whether you work for a large company like I do or you work for yourself. It’s about […]
I am not even going to attempt to read what’s currently marked as “new” in the RSS reader. At least not right now. I am, however, going to go through what I’ve been meaning to get to for a while and highlight a few older things here:
GAIM wen Pidgin, yah?: As a result of an […]
Twitter, which used to be a part of Obvious, is now it’s own company called Twitter, Inc. Seems a bit like a technicality since a lot of people from Obvious are there. Jack Dorsey, the mastermind behind Twitter, is now the CEO. I wish them all the best of luck. Still waiting for the part […]
Leo Laporte announced today he was leaving Twitter. Not because he doesn’t like Twitter–he’s a huge fan, in fact, but apparently, people are confused that his podcast network TWiT and Twitter are somehow related. And, of course, they’re not. To make it perfectly clear, he decided to leave Twitter altogether.
Now Leo is popular enough that […]
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