After a little bit of inspiration from Christian Cantrell, I’ve taken my life digital. It was a combination of Christian’s post here, and the fact that my work environment has changed (no more exchange). So I’m now in the process of using the Web 2.0 applications I talk about way more than I ever did before. I’m in the process of signing up for a Flickr pro account, I e-mailed Yahoo about their Pro mail accounts (so I can send from my personal e-mail addresses) and once they open up the beta, I’ll take the plunge. To keep up with the Yahoo! theme, I’ve started actually using my del.icio.us account.
I’ve been getting my news from Newsvine recently, but I also switched my feeds from Trillian to News Alloy. The combination of Trilly Tunes and Good News is still my favorite way to listen to podcasts, but I’m liking News Alloy because I can track more RSS feeds at one time.
This has also gotten me thinking about Apollo. I still believe that we’re not too far away from always being “on” but because I’m from small town Wyoming, I know what it’s like to be trapped in technology hell. I think that’s the niche that Apollo can take advantage of.
These web apps I’m using provide no way for me to take my content offline. If they were built on the Flash Platform and the developers created an API or a separate application that ran in Apollo, there’s no reason I couldn’t take the content with me anywhere I go. And this would be at very little additional cost for the development team.
The one problem I see is that the niche described above is one that will get smaller and smaller as broadband becomes more widespread. I’m not sure what the shelf life of Apollo is meant to be, and at this point most of the discussion is all conjecture but it’s still an important topic.
As far as switching all of my applications online, this website http://www.mercurytide.com/knowledge/white-papers/life-online/ also had some good tips.
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