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Giving my E90 a workout

This week I have been at w2e and I have been doing more moblogging and twittering than ever. In the past I had used my other handsets which lacked a keyboard and found that it was just too hard to post anything longer than an sms. I guess thats why twitter is so successful. People in asia have been doing that for years, it is just harder to do group sms.

For twitter i used my E90 most of the time with cellity tweeter. I cound have used sms too, but once i got started i got used to tweeter and just stuck with it. It's probably not the best s60 3rd client out there though. I'd be interested in knowing what others are using.

I also tried to tweet from my N800 which runs maemo linux. It worked of course but lacks a client for twitter as far as i know. I had pidgin on it but need to configure it again after the upgrade to OS2008, which I havent had time to do. The other problem is the touch screen. I love touch for browsing and using stuff with big buttons. But when it comes to text entry it is tedious at best. It also does not pass my so-called "taxi test". Ever try to use a touch screen to enter a paragraph of text while riding in the back of a swerving taxi? It is frustrating at best and in some asian or sfo taxis it is impossible. Iphone addicts will soon discover this. Worst case scenario i could imagine would be to try and tweet/blog while riding an Ambassador with no shock absorbers while orbiting one of New Delhi's many roundabouts.

What is working pretty well is the mobile typepad blogging client I am using now. The guys at SixApart did a great job with this. I t beats Nokia's annoying lifeblog software by miles. So i am going to start using it more often.

That way I can keep my mind off the fact that the crazy taxi driver in the front of me seems to consider driving a cab to be a form of first person shooter game with me as part of the bullet.

Good end to a good week

It has been a super-busy week, but one that I have enjoyed tremendously despite several pressures and setbacks. My little mishap with my neck last week is getting better and best of all, the distraction of going to the web 2.0 Expo kept my mind off of it.

The best part of the week though, was meeting so many positive-energy people. I spoke with dozens of people who are all jazzed about what they are doing. The thing they all had in common was that they all have that 'change the world' look vibe and indisputable energy. They look like they are having fun. The thing that was different about this conference to me was how open people were. I talked to people about all sorts of things and came away energized too.

The presentations were mostly good to great, though there were some snoozers. Some of the panel discussions were lacking in content, but others were interesting. It was a great place to sample lots of different visual styles of telling stories without turning people into powerpoint zombies. I took lots of pictures, I twittered, I blogged, and I did a bunch of back channel stuff during the talks with friends old and new.

I learned so much that my head is spinning. But it is spinning in a good direction. I need to do th is kind of conference more often.

I also got lots of homework to do (besides my work work). For one thing, I met Clay Shirkey and am half way through 'Here Comes Everybody' . Then I ran into Charlene Li who did some great panel discussions and was kind enough to autograph a copy of 'Groundswell' for me.

And I turned 50 this week, and got more birthday greetings and wonderful wishes from everybody on FB, which really felt so nice. Thanks to everybody for that, I really feel humbled by your gestures.

And Best of all, I got some great birthday presents : 1) Good Health, 2) Great Friends old and new, and 3) a sense of purpose and growing energy in my life which I never felt as strongly nor valued as much as I do right now. I'm happy.

Blog IT, Love it..

My friends over at SixApart just released this cool new tool that lets me update all my blogs from one place.

At last, this is moving in the right direction. It is a facebook app that I can really use to tie everything together. They are doing some great work over there and I love this tool.

Now I need to have some time to fix all my feed echoes that I have created by linking all the services together. I love this and I can't wait to see what they come up with next

Check it out when you can.

SFO airport, terminal 3

SFO airport, terminal 3, originally uploaded by oraclejulio.

cool!