[lit-ideas] Re: "It's not a magic bullet, but it's a vital tool,"
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:22:06 EST
And *I'm* in information overload???
Yeah -- my daughters use text messaging to keep in contact with me when
other venues don't suit the environment -- Dad won't let her call, needs
something urgently during a class at high school, and likewise -- I use it as a
shorthand to lt them know something urgent when I'm not able to call from the
law
office, because I'm on two phone lines, checking data via law software,
checking my home voice-mail, and sending messages to other staff members in the
law office. Instant messaging is taking over the intercom, for sure. And
then
there's tele-conferencing....
And all I wanted to do was read a good book....
Julie Krueger
still torn between antiquities and new tech
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: "It's not a magic
bullet, but it's a vital tool," Date: 1/31/2007 1:45:21 A.M. Central
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> Cell phones play vital role in developing world...
A quarter million "phone ladies" buy mobile phones on credit from Grameen
Bank...
Totally cool. A whole new form of business.
How many of you are using text messaging on your cell phones? It's
widespread in SV. I was
at a conf a few days ago. Whenever the speaker got boring ("blah, blah,
blah"), many people
in the audience would go back to their PDAs and send/receive txt msgs. If
you're in the
audience, you can't talk on your cellphone, but you can certainly txt msg.
We also IM during conf calls. There can be multiple simultaneous IM chats
during the conf
call. One chat has all the attendees. Another chat for my team. Another chat
with one other
person. And so on. And since you can send files via IM, we talk and send
files
simultaneously.
Have you downloaded Google Maps into your PDAs yet? It's not just better.
It's way better
than any other map tool for PDA/cellphones. It even shows satellite photos
on your PDA.
http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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