I had a random thought the other day spurred by an email I had received by a friend of mine with a minor complaint that I don't email my news to said person that often. This got me thinking. So my question is this In the age of social networks, twitter, RSS and blogs, who still uses email as the only method to keep in touch?


Thinking of my online habits, I don't spent that much time in chat services as I used to. My work/life balance thing doesn't allow it. But there is a lot of information about what I think and do online. I use twitter, I write in my blogs, I post photos on my Flickr account and update my status in various social networks. And to make it convenient for people, I use friendfeed.


With so much information about what's going on in my life, taking 5 minutes to email each individual person I know with the same news seems like a waste of time. I always thought of email as impersonal, and I would prefer to write a letter to someone to keep in contact, but is it really necessary for regular news dispersing communications these days?

Tags: technology, communication, web2, blog, twitter, questions

I've been experimenting with many web 2.0 services lately. Each one of them requires its own username and password. Admittedly using something like Hellotxt allows one to setup a service and then blog/update from hellotxt, so updating isn't that problematic - even though you aren't fully utilizing the service you signed up for because services like hellotxt and ping.fm allow you to use the lowest common denominator of services (i.e. text)

I've been thinking that I have way to many logins for all these services. I really wish that I could use openID for all these services - it would make life so much simpler!

Tags: social, netwoking, networks, web2, login, openID

Since my computer went kaboom (in a manner of speaking), I haven't been able to do some things that require multimedia.
One of these things is watching youTube...or rather fully enjoying the various antics people post on youTube because in order to fully appreciate the video you are watching, you need to hear what is being said, or have some sort of closed captions be part of the video (at least if you have a hearing impairment). This lead made the little gray cells think about other web 2.0 destinations and how accommodating they are for users who have some sort of auditory or visual disability - or rather the complete lack of it.

I am sure that I am not the only one who has thought of this, so I am wondering why more work isn't done to provide some accommodations.

Tags: ADA, youtube, web2, accommodations