Rob’s Digital Life

Use of Twitter, the micro-blogging web-site that allows people to post 140-character updates, has exploded in the UK over the last few months; traffic to the site increased by a staggering 974% over the past year according to Techcrunch UK. The site itself now ranks as the 291st most visited site in the UK, and [...]

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Once upon a time, employees had restricted access to the phone. When email arrived, users faced further restrictions- often, you could only email someone in the same company. Many organisations currently place restrictions upon access to Facebook – why?
Our methods of communication are becoming quicker all the time. We started with the letter, moved onto [...]

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I’ve been using the E71 for a couple of days now and I don’t know what to think, but something is nagging at me, that maybe this isn’t the perfect phone I’d hoped it would be. It may be just me and how the device is used rather than the device itself being at fault. [...]

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I’m a tad late to the party with this one, but as we’ve migrated from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook as our corporate email within Orange Business Services, it’s finally given me a change to try out Xobni. So far it’s pretty neat it’s made a difference while on a call, being able to quickly search [...]

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There’s a great article in the New York Times about Luis Suarez and his use of social networking tools to reduce his email. It’s a great article as it’s a huge sales pitch on how IBM can help your business become more productive by installing the social network tools that help.
I’ve written before on Facebook [...]

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I was just reading this post by JP and found it extremely interesting. I intend to read the concepts behind the thinking when I get some more time.
The theory is that inability to react quickly within large organisations are due to the fact that it’s so difficult to schedule meetings. Meetings are often arrange days, [...]

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managed to find some time to have a very quick look at Yahoo Pipes. It looks really simple to set up and use. I don’t have any real need or maybe just haven’t had the time to think of a search in anger that could really test it..but it looks really cool.
 
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, [...]

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Om has some more information on the new Google calendar app that he picked up from TechCrunch. Mind you some people in the UK aren’t too happy with Google right now and there plans for Harry
Technorati Tags: Google, CL2, Calendar, TechCrunch, Om

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30 boxes beta is out, you can get it here, there’s a blog too
I’ve tried several of the online calendars now and I still (to qoute U2) haven’t found what I’m looking for. 30 Boxes looks nice and has had some great write ups.
But I’m still missing a key function for me, sync with Lotus [...]

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I un installed Lotus smart suite from my Thinkpad yesterday.
Good bye 123 I’ll miss it.
I started out using 123 on my Ph.D. but switched to .xls after a year. Now I’ve finally swapped everything over.
Technorati Tags: Lotus, thinkpad

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I just replaced my 256mb key drive with a 2.3gb GMail drive.
It’s great the drive stays in cyberspace and you can just access it from any PC. It beats carry (and worrying about) a small key drive.

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