Cable is so web 1.0. I am ready for web 2.0

I've just about had it with the cable company. I am paying over 10 bucks per month for "taxes, fees,...etc". I pay 9 dollars for digital service? Why do I have to pay for that? Will I still have to pay that after the digital transmission law becomes active? I pay 8 bucks for my 1 convertor box. Per month. ridiculous.

I have been looking at alternatives, and I am starting to wonder if I should just watch all of my TV via the web? It's like having a 1 day time-delayed DVR. Really, I have checked, and the 8 tv shows I watch are all available on the web for free. Well, I would have to watch the commercials, but watching it for free might be worth it. I have a nice computer that can connect to my nice tv.

I can only see 1 downside to this plan. No HBO, Showtime, etc. So, I would have to go to Netflix or Blockbuster to rent those 6 months later when they come out on DVD. Do I really need to see any of this stuff right away? I'd have to make sure I stay away from the water cooler at work. I don't want someone telling me what happened last night on Lost.... hmmmm. I gotta go. I need to sign up for netflix.

The ultimate social app? (Part II)

A quick google search later, and I had found http://ping.fm . It is a great site that allows me to sum up my activity in 140 characters or less (that is usually easy to do) and ping.fm will post it to all of my social networks. Ahhhhhhh nirvana, until I realized I still have to read all these different sites to keep up with what my real and virtual friends are doing.

So, what we (and I mean the royal we) need is an app that will allow us to not only post, but also read all of those social comments by all of our friends. Wow, that sounds great doesn't it? What features do you think that kind of an app should have? Found out my list next time...

The ultimate social app?

I've started using a lot of social websites, first because I thought they might be useful for work, but now I realize they have limited work usage, but are fun and interesting ways to get other perspectives on everything. I started on twitter, then facebook, then myspace, and then plurk. There are lots of other sites: friendster, friendfeed, pownce, bebo, jaiku, ad infinitum. LinkedIn is the most business oriented, but I haven't done any business there. But, I'm sure that is my fault.

I'm not really interested in trying them all. Oh, I signed up for them, cause I could and no one had picked my favorite user name yet, so I thought I should reserve it for the future, just in case...

What I have noticed is that I can spend all of my free time tweeting and plurking and powncing and facing and ...well you get the idea. Not a very useful way to spend the small amount of free time I have.

Ping em... ping em all !!!

Firefox has a cool trick called popout or fly out. I first saw it mentioned in regard to facebook. So, I'm trying out the ping.fm pop out to allow me to post from firefox sidebar.

Cool it works... :-) Not always the result you expect when technology is involved...

Ping.fm has a new code as of 7/31/08 beta code is pingscompany

Web 2.0 finally usable on my blog

I've spent a ton of time updating my blog using lots of fancy web 2.0 widgets, gadgets, and poodgets and it is looking good. I'm pretty happy with it, just a few more tweeks. Let me know if you know of a cool poodget I'm not using. listen

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