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The Wonderful World of Web 2.0

I love technology. I particularly like Web 2.0 apps.

A while ago I read a post by Robert Scoble about the merits of Twitter. I began twittering and have become hooked. I saw a mention to 30 Boxes one day on Twitter. I had looked at it once before, but gave it a more thorough examination that day. Soon after I saw a tweet about Power Twitter, which allows one to run one’s feeds through 30 Boxes and update one’s Twitter profile.

Morton Fox mentioned aNobii one night on Twitter. I began entering my books that night. With Power Twitter, my profile can be updated with newly added books. Later he also mentioned Tumblr. I joined immediately when I saw that I would be able to map my account to a sub-domain of mine. Now I run all my feeds to Tumblr and it can be viewed all in one place.

Yesterday there was a simple tweet from 30 Boxes:

look at this — Jott to 30 Boxes » link to aPathetic Blog: I’m like a sandwich, a sandwich for the INSANE.

That link explained how to use Jott.com to update one’s 30 Boxes calendar. Jott provides a telephone number to call. One speaks his event and Jott translates that to text. It then e-mails the text to a GMail account of mine that fowards it to 30 Boxes. Voilà, my calendar is updated. I appreciated this so much I left a comment on the blog and mentioned how nice it would be to be able to call Jott to send a tweet.

Today, Jeff left a comment here at eCache that he put up a post today how to do just what I asked. I set up my account with egorcast and can now use my cellphone to send a tweet to Twitter. Now I have Jeff as a friend at Twitter.
I do not have a Blackberry or a smartphone, but I can now use my cell to do similar tasks. And that is all because of Web 2.0 technology and specifically Twitter. I love this stuff.

Next up is configuring a script I found to read a bedtime story to Twitter each night when I log off. I just hope I can set up the cron job properly.

Also blogged on this date . . .

• Bury the Survivor - 2008
• Bonds, Respect, and the Typical Fan - 2006
• Irish Misrepresents His Company to the World - 2005
• Murder Mystery - 2004
• Pink Floyd - 1988