My new shirt arrived in the mail today from Thinkgeek.com: http://bit.ly/7GrtiH
My lucky nephews got an old school Star Wars Christmas this year... Check out the classic geekery. Yes, I'm kinda jealous. The Millenium Falcon is killer-- sound effects, movie quotes, fully built out inside. Props to my sis-in-law on this one!
Good stuff
This is wicked good. Especially if you've used Wave, you can see how they've integrated a lot of the features and tools. If only Wave flowed this smoothly {little laggy so far}
Def adult rated (it's Pulp Fiction after all).
I was finally hit by one of the GWave roll outs, so I'm on board. Now I just have to find some other Wavers to ride with...
{edited to add: I'm at "gammonmark" on that there Wave}
David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with "a river that continues to flow as you dip into it.
Thinking about this quote from David Liu in the WSJ.com article dovetails nicely with a key facet of my dissertation research. Email works with the old online (check/send messages), offline framework. However, we're increasingly moving to a state of constant, or as I argue, persistent presence in our lives and selves. The online/offline dynamic, while still important, is becoming less effective as a mode of thinking about our relationships to technology/media AND each other. We're no longer "going online" to check mail, or look something up... when was the last time you told someone you were "going online?" This is no longer an action we do or place we go because we're already there- persistently. Even when "we" are not there in an active way, a sense of us is, continually informing and being. This is what I call the "social extensibility" of technology, the way it allows us to expand, extend, and enhance our self and social presence. More to follow...
In T-Mobile’s words: “based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”
The story is a jarring one for those storing increasing amounts of data in the “cloud”: as we become more reliant on servers to house our data, such losses can be catastrophic.
Awful for anyone who's lost data... and a good reminder about the potential pitfalls of moving to the cloud. Definitely good to keep in mind that your data is always vulnerable, never hurts to have some redundancies built in. (note to self, run backup!)
