Category: messaging

After all the fits and starts over the weekend with their backend server upgrade, my comrades in the Software and Services at Nokia got Nokia Email Beta 3 rolled out. It’s certainly an improvement, but it’s …

Ericsson is doing a study on Mobile Online Communities. This covers things like Twitter and Jaiku, but also mobile versions of things like Facebook. If you feel like helping their …

Before the electrical telegraph was invented, there was the optical telegraph. Optical telegraph were the “smoke signals” of their day, making it possible to communicate messages over a long distance.

According to …

More on Windows Mobile versus S60: the personal information management (PIM) parts of the phone. Again, I will be comparing the Nokia E61 to the HTC Mogul Qwest lent me for review.

Disclaimer: …

A couple of people I know got signed up for Quechup. My address was apparently “harvested” from the address book of these folks and I’ve been invited–multiple times, even–to join this service.

I’ve …

Om Malik ruminates about why people have Facebook fatigue. While I don’t claim to speak for everyone else, I can explain why I’m not using it.

To put it bluntly, their mobile interface …

I have to smile at this use of Twitter and FaceBook by Dan York, which I saw unfold as I saw the first Twitter message he sent out. I’m glad it worked out for him, and it basically …

I look at anti-Twitter articles like this one and I realize what it is people aren’t understanding about Twitter. People who hate it break out the “who cares what you are doing” argument. I’m not going to argue with …

(Title sung to the tune of Tiny Bubbles by the late Don Ho)

No, I’m not talking about the Mobile Twitter interface that the Twitter folks finally got done, I am talking about a Twitterrific-like application for your …

When I saw David Beckemeyer’s agreement with Tom Keating’s dissing of Twitter, I did stop and think. And then I Twittered: Twitter is like an IRC backchannel for everyday life. It’s my link to a continual conversation …