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Are mobile phones worth more than home broadband?
Image via Wikipedia Were text messages ever cheap? iPhone users already pay a $30 monthly fee for unlimited data use, and I guess most of them are paying the $20 monthly fee as well. This Monday I started sending my “direct messages” from Twitter to my cell phone. Today I had to stop because I [read more...]
Easier to marginalize email than to kill it
Asking your teammates to give up their inboxes is not going to make you many friends. Today I’m going to outline a way to free your office from the burdens of email misuse without forcing anyone to let go of their Blackberry or GMail security blankets. Permit me to re-use this old graphic from a [read more...]
E-mail as an Alert System
Let’s wrap up this week of workplace efficiency discussions by looking at what email is becoming for many of us: an alert system. The screenshot above shows my personal email inbox at GMail. A quick glance shows that the majority of the messages are automated alerts from various web services: the Memphis Public Library, some [read more...]
Web Titans Locked In a Fight for Your Identity
A constellation of online identities If your online life is anything like mine, you’ve got accounts with eleventy different online communities. We’ve got our FriendFeeds, our LiveJournals, our Facebooks, and our IM screen names. Each of these identities fragments your attention and your presence on the web. Some companies choose to openly share their slice [read more...]
