The Command T.O.C.

My Internet Speed...

Guys from Comcast came over today and I think did a GREAT job in moving my internet speed up. It has been so slow and they believe it was because of the way the cables were connected; I was losing a lot of signal strength from the box to the actual modem. Now, it is a lot faster. Although, like all things, I would want it even faster.

My best result was last year but my current result was very very close to this:

More on Twittering...

I just checked to see if I was an "Early adopter" and I would think so. The company was incorporated in May of 2007 and I joined in September of 2007. I wonder how much the popularity of the iPhone had to do with the massive growth of Twitter?

The Use of Twitter - @kevinaom

Twitter is an incredible little application. It is pure genius in its simplicity and it has become an incredible tool to use in the "micro blogging" space. You can "report" on things as they happen and provide very quick insight. You will not see in depth reporting (except for links to such) or huge ideas but rather it will be part of your journey towards the truth (whatever that is) in just about everything you do. 

As expected, I am twittering a lot. I twitter far more than I write here. I have linked my twittering to this blog on the right part of the screen, in the margin, you will see my latest twitters. Further, I know have any posting from this blog automatically twitter out to the "twittersphere" (Will that be a word soon).

So, subscribe to my twitters at @Kevinaom and please interact there as well as here. When there are in depth topics to discuss, they certainly will be done here but my day to day, hour to hour, perhaps minute by minute, thoughts will be out on Twitter. 

One thing about Twitter (or at least how I use it). They are thoughts. They are not "final disposition" but as I think of things, try to understand them, challenge them, I put them out on Twitter. Just because I say something once on twitter does not mean it is final. Much like here, I want responses and thoughts and be able to be "pushed around" so I can develop and grow my thinking. 

The Death of EMAIL

It is always interesting to see how technology evolves and how our behaviors evolve with it. This article in Slate is touting the death of email as the growth of social networks such as Facebook continue. The youth of today want IMs and social networks not the plodding of email.

I wonder if even blogging will soon be passe or is Facebook the merging of blogging and IMing?  My suggestion to everyone is to keep up with the technology so you can understand it. Get a Facebook / Myspace page and understand how it works. You may find that it has more uses than you could imagine.

Oh yeah, the badge below is my facebook page:

And Now for Something Completely Different.... GOOGLE SMS!!

A very good feature of GOOGLE which I was unaware of until today is the ability to search via SMS message. You send the message to GOOGL (46645) and you query it. So, if I wanted to find a pizza in Andover, MA, I would send the SMS message to 46645 and in the text I would send: pizza 01810. Google would return the locations of pizza joints in Andover.

That is innovative and very useful. It has things such as driver directions, weather, word definitions etc. You can read more about it at Google SMS.