Today we see many sites and tools cropping up giving us tremendous advantages for sharing our world with our family and friends — or even strangers — on the web. We express ourselves, our ideas, and deliver our personal touch to the world. This is where social becomes so much more than just effectively letting that small email list of yours know what’s going on; now, you have an audience.

So let’s look at the tools that make everyone get their 15 minutes (or maybe almost forever) of fame, while allowing them to be social.

• Blogging: Blogs are a way of writing all of your blathering for everyone on the Internet to read. You know, like, this one! It’s a way to force your words, and way of thinking, onto other people. Or, sometimes, it’s a great way to communicate ideas and thoughts that others may find helpful or useful. I’m hoping you’ll be reading this blog for the latter reason.
• RSS Feeds: This is an extension of a lot of web tools and websites. Most - if not all - blogs have an RSS feed. It’s a kind of list - in a special format - that can be read by specific programs or web browsers. The idea is a way to aggregate information into a simple protocol that can easily be translated by many programs and computers all over the world. Kind of like an easy to understand database… but, if you’re here, you probably knew that already.
• Video sites: YouTube is a prime example of how people deliver their thoughts, rants, and sometimes content they want others to see. It gives even the most novice of the web surfers a way to create a video log or just share with their family and friends. Years ago, you had to hope someone could actually receive and download your giant video email attachment, now it’s all streaming to you in high-def!
• Photo sites: Flickr is probably one of the most popular of the photo-sharing websites. But it’s not just sharing of your photos. You get so much more out of Flickr than just a way to let people see your pictures. You can organize them into albums, tag them for easy searching, and you can also add special geo-tagging to them, allowing people to see just where you were standing; attaching the GPS data directly to the photo. Thanks to the way digital cameras work today, others can see what kind of camera you used to photograph the picture and even what f-stop you used when you did. The benefit isn’t just a bunch of stats, either. You can look at what someone did with a certain kind of camera and say: “wow, I can do THAT with MY camera? Cool!” It lets you understand a little more about the quality you get from your own photographs and learn a little about photography in the process. Education AND eye-candy… Neat!
• Micro-blogging sites: Twitter is by far the most popular of these sites. Micro-blogging is the process of writing a short (140 character) thought and pushing it out to the web. There’s nothing like creating a Twitter account and just watching what mundane things people are saying about their own lives. Sometimes, you run into some awesome people who have wonderful things to say all of the time, but even they get into the simplistic “life blogging” of stuff like “I just ate a chicken sandwich.” However, this same site, with a very nice open API lets you do neat things to let people know what’s going on in the world - yours or the larger. It’s kind of like a quick check-in to see if your friends are still breathing. If they’re decent Twitterers, then you have a shot at knowing what’s going on. Interestingly, the average age of a Twitterer is 37! You’d think it’d be a thing for the young only, wouldn’t you?
• Social Network sites: Facebook comes to mind, here. You can argue that other sites even like “Classmates” or “MySpace” offer a similar service, but at a definite cost and varying quality. Facebook has generated a tremendous amount of interest from both young and older and it’s a great way to find all of those lost friends from high school, grade school, college, work, and even family. Of course, you kind of have to have people’s email addresses to really make this work out. At any rate, Facebook allows you to communicate what’s going on in your world but through a series of “applications” that bolt onto the main Facebook site. This is actually quite useful in the sense that you can not only do silly things like taking quizzes with your friends, but you can let them know what books your reading, music and movies you like, show them pictures, and even share a quick thought or two. Connections to other tools such as Twitter let them see a status of your day, as well. This is like a blog without having to take the time to actually write it all out. You click on a picture of a book, saying you read it, and suddenly you have an entry of what you’ve done and others can either be interested or ignore it. Got that great new achievement in some XBox game? Great! You can show that off, too! You didn’t have to do anything but set up your gamertag — the rest was totally automatic.

Putting it all together

Gluing this stuff together is where the real “Web 2.0″ and “social networking” is going to make everything awesome. You need something - or a bunch of things - to let people know what’s going on and allow them to get to your information easily. Let’s take a look at a “linked” scenario of how the above tools can work together to create a journal of a day without ever having to really write anything major.

Say you’re going on a trip - business or vacation fun - and you’ve got a couple of devices you can use, or maybe you opt for just something simple like your cool cellphone. Now, I’m not talking about anything too fancy, here. Most people these days carry a phone that has both text services as well as the Internet on it. With that, and a camera built it, you can tell a pretty cool story during the day. If your phone happens to have GPS capabilities built in, you have a little more detail to your story, and if you’ve got a PDA phone, you can almost write a book with something that fits in the palm of your hand. Back to the idea… So, you’ve got your cameraphone with text and Internet on it. You also have a Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and a Facebook account. No problem! You’ve got a full life-blogging suite in your hands!

You get up the morning of your trip and you’re tired. You feel the desire to express this to the world, but don’t feel like writing a long journal or blog entry, so you quickly text a message to your Twitter account that says “Man, I’m really beat this morning, but I have to travel.” In seconds, your friends know you’re awake, alive, tired, and heading out the door and won’t be home. Of course, this can work against you if you allowed someone to know this information who might do you some harm - like rob your house - so always be careful what you tell “the world at large.” After that, you pack your bags, Twitter that, eat breakfast, Twitter that, head to the airport and arrive, Twitter that too, and then sit and sip on a Latte while you wait for your plane - heck, let’s Twitter that bit, too. People know where you are. This is handy if a spouse or friend wants to know if they can get a hold of you, today. If you Twittered: “Getting on the plane and switching off phone” people know they can’t call you - pretty cool!

So, while you’re sitting drinking your latte, you see something cool in one of those airport shops, or maybe you just like the look of some plane on the runway. Quickly, you switch to your camera on your phone and shoot a pic or two. Now, maybe you find some sign funny, or something, and what do you do to share this with your friends? You upload it to Flickr! But wait, there’s more to this. While you were still at home, you also had created an account on a site called “TwitterFeed.com” which lets you “tweet” (That’s what Twitter messages are called by the in crowd) anything you might be able to get from an RSS feed! Wow, cool! So, hmm… hey, my Flickr account has an RSS feed that has information on all new pictures that I’ve taken! Great! I can now upload a photo to Flickr and TwitterFeed will post the information about it in Twitter (with a link to my Flickr photo!) so my friends know I took a picture. Hey, that’s pretty slick! Aww, but I wanted that on my Facebook account, too. Now I have to upload it there, as well.

Say, while I’m taking pictures and sipping lattes, I decide I’ll listen to some music on my iPod. I wish I could tell some of my friends what I’m hearing ’cause I think they’ll like some of these songs! I just discovered some of these new songs and bands through Pandora.COM, and wanted to share, but I didn’t have time. Do I Twitter? I could, couldn’t I, but I see someone — or something — funny that’s moving around. I need to shoot this with video to get the point across - I just have to! I decide to do this with my phone and then upload it to my YouTube account. Hey that’s pretty cool! Now they can laugh, too!

Now I’m trying to deal with all of these different places where I’m putting stuff. Facebook kind of helps put this together ’cause I can add little applications that show off my YouTube and Flickr photos. In fact, with a quick sync of my iPod, I can use an add-on to iTunes — called Last.FM — to let them know what I listened to! Facebook has an application to display that, too! Hey, now that’s pretty cool! That has an RSS feed, too! Let’s add that to TwitterFeed.com and let them know what I heard so they can check them out, too. Hmm, that’ll have to wait until I get back and sync my iPod, but that’s OK. Oh, wait, now I’ve got even more to deal with. At least it’ll do it on its own when I get back. Cool!

I still have this problem of how I deal with all of this content I’m collecting and want to deliver to YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. In comes a solution called “ShoZu“. This application will download and run on almost any phone - probably the one in your pocket - and can also help you upload stuff to the aforementioned services via MMS (multi-media service) messaging, as well, if you don’t want to — or can’t — download and application onto your phone. You create an account at ShoZu, set up a couple of services like Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube, then BAM! You now have a tool to consolidate from where you send stuff AND, it’ll do it in the background. No more logging into each of these sites and sending things one-by-one. You start up ShoZu, click on a service, like Flickr, and then select a bunch of pictures you want to send. Do the same for stuff you want in your YouTube account, and again for stuff you want up in Facebook - or just let Facebook apps consolidate the information in that “life feed” we’ve been building with RSS feeds and TwitterFeed. Once you click on the stuff you want uploaded through ShoZu, it takes care of the rest, in the background and will even Geo-Tag pictures you just took! You can even have ShoZu pop-up as soon as your done shooting pictures or video and ask you if you want to send it up now and to where. Now THAT is efficient and just plain cool!

Wow, I haven’t even left the airport and I’ve got a ton of stuff to tell my family and friends. Imagine what I can do once I arrive at my destination!

I’m not going to go through all of that, but you get the point. My little scenario was a way to describe a small sampling of the collaborative tools which let you communicate with friends, family, and the rest of the world. It’s not even that hard to set up! Beyond the beauty of you communicating with them, they can communicate with you, too. Each of these tools — like Twitter and Flickr — let others add replies and comments to your items. Now you have a full social discussion with your “life blog” and it even has some permanence.

So, have a look at some of these tools, set them up, try them out and see if you can’t communicate with your friends and family a little better! It sure beats email! …and it was wireless, to boot!

UPDATE! 02-26-2008, My brother-in-law pointed out a really cool utility to bring this all together, as well. Well, he twittered it. See! I told you this stuff works! The product/website - which is free - is called “FriendFeed“. This solution allows you to aggregate a whole bunch of different sites into one singular feed; kind of like what you can do with Facebook and all of its bolt-on applications. But it provides an RSS feed of everything. So, when I return a rental  movie to Blockbuster, it updates my personal RSS feed and, of course, updates FriendFeed because I have that as a something I want to publish. You can add Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, and a whole lot more. Check it out and see if this doesn’t help the wonderful world of Life Blogging and social networking!

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Here’s the example: I’m taking a trip to Orlando to visit Disney World (OK, so I’ve done that, but not like this example) with my family and parents, and I’m driving from my home to the location because my mom doesn’t like the idea of flying. So, what can I do to find my way there? I know you have the answer: Mapping.

Sure, you could unfold a map and start tracing your route down the coast (I live in the north eastern part of the USA), and struggle with that. Maybe you could do something hip like type the address of where you want to go (we’ll say “Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge”) into Google Maps, and click on the waypoint, then click on “Directions from…” and then type in a home address. Then you print out the pages and it’s easy to read! Very cool, and very simple! Besides, paper is ubiquitous; it doesn’t get damaged when you drop it on the ground, you can drop it in water and it still probably is good enough to read, and you can fold it up and put it in your back pocket - no batteries, no hassle.

Now, simple is good, but more information and instant access to stuff is even better! There are a host of electronic solutions to give you all kinds of cool functionality. Here are some I think you could use:

• A GPS Receiver - Something like what most people have stuck on the windshield in their car, or in the dash. The in-dash units are great, but their stuck in your car. What if you want to use it in a car that doesn’t have GPS in-dash, or maybe you want to Geocache? I think a PORTABLE receiver makes more sense. You can walk with these, talk to them as they talk to you, hook them up to a bike, or move them from car-to-car.
• A PC with a GPS receiver - This is a cool solution because you not only have GPS mapping software and a receiver, but you’ve got access to all kinds of other information - especially if you’ve equipped yourself with some kind of “air-card” so you can connect to the Internet from wherever you are. This is a great versatile solution, but also a greater risk because you’re now carrying something you’ll need to watch over carefully while traveling to unknown places. Besides that, you incur the additional cost of wireless-anywhere connectivity from your mobile provider.
• A Mobile Phone with GPS - Many phones now support some great GPS features. Companies like Verizon now offer services for voice-directed navigation with your mobile phone. You can also take advantage of (currently) free services like DIR-ECT-IONS (that’s the phone number) that will ask you where you want to go and then text the directions to your mobile phone! Excellent! 
• A PDA Phone (with GPS) - Now, here’s the one I think is the coolest of all. If you have a PDA phone, not only can you install/use a GPS receiver (either some kind of connected one like a SDIO card or Bluetooth enabled), but you now have something small enough to carry with you everywhere. Beyond that, you can easily make use of applications that are cropping up everywhere. With devices like the iPhone, Palm, and Windows Mobile, you can install (or already have pre-installed) Google Maps or similar tools to help you not only locate people or places in your contact list, but be able to call them directly, and even get turn-by-turn directions from where you are (with a GPS unit attached), or the simpler follow-along list. Remember, this also would require some kind of data plan to access the Internet, so that’s extra cost to you.

Before you say “that last one was kind of cool…” think about this too: that last one is expensive, too. So, you’ll want to be very careful with the device itself - and they’re usually pretty temperamental. 

Now think about this: with this device, you not only can have a phone, your contacts, access to maps, Internet connectivity and messaging, you can (almost always) have a camera. Think about it, you know when you park your car, you need to remember where you parked it, right? A picture is great. Now combine that picture with the ability to attach a waypoint (that’s a specific point on a map - like “this point is on the way…”) on your Google Map on your phone. You have a picture, GPS, and a phone. You CAN’T get lost or lose your car! … unless, of course, you lose your phone or it dies. But, let’s just assume it’s working well and you haven’t left it anywhere.

If you happen to have GPS tracking while you’re in a big place like Disney World, you can do some other cool things, too. How about not having to read Disney’s daily map, but being able to find the attraction with your GPS? Drop some push-pins/waypoints into your handy GPS application (and there are plenty of these things on the web, mind you) and you have your own destination map for each attraction! With the GPS on, you’ll know how far and which way to go, too! If you have little kids (or even if you don’t!), there is NOTHING more difficult than locating a restroom when you need it. With a few carefully recorded positions of restrooms, you’ll have an easy time finding what you need. The only thing better would be if you had a picture of it so you can identify the entrance visually. … Wait, we can do that, too, can’t we? Sweet!

So, what does this all mean? It means that technology is not only your friend, it’s your butler. Imagine deciding you want Italian food while at the park. With a GPS and the proper Points of Interest (POI) marked, you can find the closest places that serve that kind of food and be able to get there with just a few clicks or pokes of a touch screen.

You now have the tools you need to find everything and remember where you parked your car. Besides that, many of these tools (if not all) have support for playing your MP3s, listening to audio books, and showing slide-shows of pictures you’ve taken (from your memory cards - usually SD) while you’re vacationing. Now you don’t just have to listen to your parents singing some song you don’t even recognize! Along with that, some units even support the use of services like MSN Direct, which will give you information like the closest gas stations and their prices, movie theaters with phone numbers and show times, and even traffic updates, so you can avoid jams from construction or accidents.

Vacation with your family doesn’t have to be difficult, anymore.

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Recently (like 4 days ago), while trying to re-enter the world of consolidated - easy to deal with - email, calendars and all sorts of information sharing, I decided to try something I’d done in the past: use one email tool to help consolidate my accounts. I have a few, but not too many. I also wanted an online desktop of sorts so that I could see all of the calendars and tasks I have to view, and figure out how to keep on top of all of that stuff. Luckily, I don’t travel much, or that would have been another bunch of tools!

So, I set out on a quest to find the right grouping of tools to make it all work. In this lengthy article, I discuss the products I tried out, as well as what worked out for me as of now. With the ever-evolving world of computing, things will change in my bag-of-tricks in the near future, I’m sure, but for today, this is where I am until I find something better.

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While I’m playing with these things on my laptop, I’m wondering what good they would do someone like me. See, the reasoning is this: if I’m a technology-evolved person, and I’m using tools like a Convertible Tablet PC and a Windows Mobile phone, does it really make sense for me to keep something like a 30boxes or Google calendar? Now, hear me out on this simple thought…

I can totally understand where someone with just a tiny web browser on their phone might want a half-decent tool to help them manage their stuff. But if I have a full PDA phone with the ability to sync my calendar and contacts with my Outlook client, why would I even want to sync them with an online resource or get sent reminders via a text message?

Now, before you go spouting off at me, listen for just a second… then you can go spouting off at me. I understand that it might be a good idea to sync my calendar somewhere else in case it somehow got corrupted on my computer, but the fact is, if I sync it with my Windows Mobile device, haven’t I already taken care of that? … and vice versa?

It got me thinking about how I was approaching some of these tools and what exists. Products like IMified seem neat, but I don’t use them on my PDA phone because there’s just no need. Like I said, if you have a standard phone with an IM client, maybe this makes more sense. Otherwise, I’m just sending twitter stuff through my IM client on my PC… which I could just do in my browser on my PDA… or on my PC… or… well, you get the picture.

So, other than trying to be like the cool kids out there, I can’t see any reason for a mobile person to want to use these tools (again, other than for some kind of back-up purpose or use with a standard phone).

OK, now you can tell me I’m stupid. … but you have to explain yourself.

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I was reading an article on my buddy’s James and Kevin’s site. They truly are the mobile warriors of the world. These guys know their tech and they know how to be mobile - all of the time! So, when I saw them pointing to Chris Pirillo’s iPhone Rant video, I was really glad to see they were - overall - on Chris’ side. [View article… ]

I happen to be one that agrees with the sentiment that everything Apple creates is not gold. Honestly, I love my iPod, I was a long time Mac user, and really do think that Leopard is a cool operating system, but I think the iPhone lacks one major thing: PHONE functionality. Yes, you can dial numbers on it and receive calls, but I have heard so many rants about how there are difficulties syncing with Windows environments and tools like Outlook, that even the cool “CoverFlow” (which Apple bought from SteelSkies - they didn’t come up with that!) isn’t all that intriguing; isn’t this just more bloatware? Pretty is nice, but really, if I want to get to something quickly, the last thing I want to do is emulate flipping through my entire CD collection like it were in a jukebox.

Chris gets into some huge rants about it not having video - personally, I rarely use the video on my phone. I’m sure I’m not the mobile warrior that Chris is, but I would agree that no (or even poor) video on a phone with 8GB of memory is pretty dumb. Heck, I can even stream live video (really well!) with my XV6700 using some apps out there. I don’t, ’cause… well, no-one cares what I think, but that’s not the point! But, no removable battery? That’s just stupid!

But I’m wondering, even if the new iPhone isn’t “all that,” what will this bring? My guess?: By around November or December (maybe as late as February), Apple will release a new series of iPods. But, what I’m guessing is that they’ll probably even release the 2G version of the iPhone. Imagine the new tooling of the iPod looking like what so many speculated: the iPhone style, and it just plays music, pictures and videos! So, do they call it the 6G or “iPhone Lite”?

[Excerpts from Chris Pirillo and JKOnTheRun]

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Think about it, you’ve got pieces of hardware, bits of software, and some combination in between as your choices for viewing Hi-Def images on your TV. If you’ve got a PS3 or an XBOX 360, you’ve got some better choices (or decisions you’ve made) for what you’re getting. For example, if you had a PS2, and then upgraded to a PS3, then you’ve sort of chosen the Blu-Ray route. But you’ve also probably opened up your ability to - in the future - download all sorts of Hi-Def content via an online resources strategy that hasn’t quite made it out of Sony’s head’s yet. It’s sort of the same for the XBOX 360, except you’re looking at HD-DVD and there’s already a bunch of content you can download from XBOX Live. If you’re an iTunes fan, you’ve got iTunes for music, TV, Podcasts, and Movies; you pick up an Apple TV, and you’re all set, as well - downloadable content right to your Hi-Def TV! Then there’s the other choice, the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (or maybe the combo) player; the old school method of getting your TV on. You buy a player, hook it up to your TV and you watch what’s available on Discs. So, which is the better solution?

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As much as it pains me to have to pay even more for a song, the extra $.30 is worth the upgrade so that I can access my iTunes purchased music from not only iTunes, but from my Windows Media Player, or my Roku SoundBridge. I love the idea of downloading music: It’s quick and it’s simple. I think the DRM thing has finally started to get its rightful share of criticism. I mean, sure, there are many groups that have been fighting it; hey, I don’t like it either, but have put up with it to be legal.  But I believe the executive attention of the music industry is finally focusing on the difference between profit and loss; it’s sure taken them long enough.

I think, if you give people the option, you can get most law-abiding citizens to pony-up the extra few cents to pay for a song that is more versatile than the currently DRM’d versions they have been getting. People, especially young people, get it. It’s how music is delivered now. I mean, look at how different this is than what my youth was like: when you had an LP record, you not only could not just skip to a specific track (without a good eye and a keen hand on the grooves), but you couldn’t see what track was playing, it’s title, the band’s name or anything. Worse than that, you could only listen to one band at a time. If you wanted to shuffle your collection, you literally had to place a stack of platters on the phono and keep dropping plates until you ran out… then you had to flip them over! The “Party Shuffle” was definitely not something we had. Then you had cassettes; at least MIX TAPES were a possibility, then. But you still lost all of that great skipping and track identity. This wasn’t even close to being able to “burn a CD.”

I wonder how long it’s going to take the other record execs to agree with Mr. Dr. Professor Apple? I hope it’s soon, ’cause I want to be able to stream my collection of iTunes tracks at a higher bitrate!

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If you talk to my buddies James and Kevin at JKOnTheRun.com, these Masters of Mobile can certainly tell you that this type of technology can not only be efficient, it can change your life; I would wholeheartedly agree. In the past few months there have been a number of changes at the old Manoogian Manor (there was even a once fabled website by that name - now defunct). One of the major things that happened to me was that I switched my mobile phone device; that change, alone, was huge. I also started needing this technology even more - due to personal family circumstances.

So, what’s my gear? Well, that’s pretty simple. I use a Verizon XV6700 as my Windows Mobile/Cellphone as well as my EVDO data connection through my Gateway Tablet PC. These two devices, alone, are awesome! The 6700 is my daily life-line. Obviously, the cellphone is one of the main reasons I use this device, but I probably get more use out of the PDA portion of the device, than anything else. I’m not a huge fan of convergence, I assure you. But, when the right grouping comes together, I’m all for it. My general problem with device convergence has always been the sacrifice of each technology just to make one singular device. In this case, I didn’t give up too much at all. I suppose my ideal device would be Windows Mobile 6 with an eight megapixel camera and the ability to sync to iTunes (iPhone-ish?!). But, I honestly prefer Windows Mobile, right now. I’ve used Palm in the past, but came back to WM because of stuff like Activesync; I love immediate sync of my stuff — I wish my iPod did that too! If my WM device had the aforementioned and a 120GB flash drive, and could sync my iTunes stuff (sans the DRM!), I would be in portable heaven!

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I was having some fun, the other day, just flipping through some “Web 2.0″ websites and decided I would keep my eyes open for something interesting. I found this site called “AirSet.com.” They have a product that is somewhat similar to what many may have seen. It’s a scheduling and contacts application, that’s web-based, with a really slick interface. Now, sure you’ve seen these before: they let you keep track of your calendar, contacts, and share it with your friends; it even syncs with Outlook and stuff. Great! Here’s the cool thing: they also have an application that runs on your Verizon phone. The app is designed in a way that it’s totally efficient to run on the phone and gives you all of the immediate functionality of the web version of the application. Sounds good, right? There’s more…

They have a cool screen-capture video of the application, and it tells you how it works. I was pretty amazed at the application and its simplicity. I use lots of “calendaring” (I hate that word) tools, so I’m always looking for ways to improve my access to my information. If you’re someone with a Verizon phone, this might be your ticket! Save for owning a PDA phone.

The focus of their application is getting you to share it with lots of people. Think of the scenario like you have a team (like my cycling team), and you get them all signed up to AirSet. You keep your team and personal calendars on there. When there’s a change to your group calendar, you immediately see it on your calendar. When this happens, you can also get an alert letting you know something has changed. That way, you’re not out of the loop and you do go driving off to an event where no-one will be.

This same scenario is great if you have a busy family life. If you’ve got a kid or two, and both you and your spouse are busy running around, wouldn’t it be great to communicate your schedule changes through something like this? Imagine having a neighborhood calendar, School, Team calendar, family calendar, and personal calendar. Together, you know what’s going on all over the place. If someone makes a change - a singular owner of the calendar - then everyone sees the change. This is so much better than those emails flying around between you and who missed them. You sync it up with your Outlook calendar and BANG! You’re done. What, Practice is canceled? No problem… you know before it’s too late! The school play is tomorrow? You know before it’s too late!

I know this sounds like a commercial, and I’d gladly get paid to say this, but I’m not getting paid. I’m just passing on something cool. Check it out! I think combining this functionality with some other great tools would be just astounding!

So, who wants to share a calendar with me?!

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Two things, though…
1. I’ll be on vacation, starting tomorrow, and will be away for a week. I was thinking, however, that I might do a PocketCast while I was on vacation. I’ll be in Disney, so it’ll be a cool place to ‘cast. That would be fun!

2. I have this really awesome news from Waterfall Mobile, that Matt Silk and I talked about, and I’d love to share, but I can’t yet. I had drafted a blog post about a conversation we had - about a two weeks ago - but I decided not to release it as 1) I hadn’t finished reviewing it, and 2) Matt showed me some cool stuff and I wanted to release the whole thing all at once.

3. Part Deux of my “Home Automation Discussion” will arrive in a couple of weeks. I hope you guys are looking forward to it!

So, hopefully you guys will come back when I can talk more about the cool and different technology I’m seeing!

Stay tuned!

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