By examples, here are why you might consider creating a twitter account...

You can quickly send a direct message to twitter users regardless if they are currently online or not, and they'll be sure to get the message. This is the same, but quicker and shorter than, sending an email.

With a twitter account, and the TwitterFox add-on added to your browser, you can click on TwitterFox, type "d erich13 <messsage>" and the "<message>" will be sent to the erich13 twitter user. The limit is 140 characters, but it's quick and easier than sending an email. Also, you can sign up to follow gcal and then be able to update Google Calendar from TwitterFox with "d gcal <go to xyz tomorrow at 6 PM>".

Does anyone else have examples of using Twitter?

twitter.com
www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox
twitter.com/gcal
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Eric "erich" Herberholz
EricHerberholz.GooglePages.com

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Pinging my micro-blogs from ping.fm

Time for some prose, about Epiphany Suit

I owe it to myself, and to my readers :-) to explain more about my thoughts for the Web_2.0» applicability to an "Epiphany Suit", with current technology. As I love seeing examples, here goes...

My current focus is on using the Browser as the lenses of the suit, and as a means of doing on-the-fly research on topics as they come up. 

1. Having and maintaining a personal knowledge base (KB) may be appropriate. In a sense, always doing dynamic researches will yield the most current knowledge on a subject, but a drawback is that research takes time, and we may not always want to re-research topics that have already been researched. We can choose when to re-research a topic, but instead having a personal knowledge base, to refer to, can be a time saver. Personally, I use My System» of Tagging»that involves creation of an entry in my personal knowledge base, that gives an overview of the tag/topic, links to sites, etc.  A personal Wikipedia, if you will. This KB (personal Wikipedia) allows me to personalize tags/topics, in ways that make them understandable to me. This system does not exclude use of folksonomy bookmarking (e.g. del.icio.us, ma.gnolia), and in fact, has the effect of enhancing those bookmarks. I call my KB A-List. Here it is:
           EricHerberholz.GoogleGages.com/A-List
   
2. Another method that I am using, is customzing my Flock browser with any number of Addons/Extensions», and customizing the toolbars. For example:
   
   
   
   
   

Anyone have any other suggested means of populating or implementing an Epiphany suit?

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Jott, a love story

I am on business in Costa Rica. My wife is home in California. We were supposed to talk tonight using Skype. Guess what? The power is out at our home. So, guess what my wife did.  She used her newish Jott account, to phone in a an email to me. Very nice. Otherwise I would have stayed up late wondering why she didn't come one line and call me. Now I can rest easy on my last night here. Lovin' my wife. Lovin' Jott. And lovin' my wife that she thought of using Jott. Thanks Jott! Thanks Honey!

See you soon.

Any other fun stories about using Jott, anyone?

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Ping.fm - Social Services supported

Currently I use several micro-blogging, status update, socal sites/tools. To update statuses, I have been using TwitKu. Recently I found out about Ping.fm.

Does anyone love Ping.fm, and want to offer suggestions, to me and others?

Here is a picture of the Social Services that Ping.fm currently supports:

Social Services

And here are the "Tools" that Ping.fm supports:

Toolsls

Ping This

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Amazon's OnlineReader: see some of the inside of Rainbows End

Search inside

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Welcome, Blogger Pack - You know who you are!

Welcome, Blogger Pack - You know who you are!
Enjoy the blog, and please comment as the mood moves you.

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