Archive for the ‘lifestreaming’Category
I want my Google Wave already …
get on with it already
Has Google’s marketing department been co-opted by Lucas Studios? I’ve been angling to try Google Wave, the much-touted “next generation” communication platform, for a year. Thus far nothing. This is the longest I’ve waited for a promised payoff since the first Star Wars prequel. And we all remember how that turned out … so make with the Wave already.
29
09 2009
complete sentences are so 2007
light blogging (lyt blo•ging) Noun. Child of WordPress and Twitter. Posts contain few or no words. No account needed. Built for speed. Post by e-mail. Zero maintenance.
Are you spending more than 60 seconds on your posts? Wish there were a better way? Then you’re in luck. About 2 years ago a mysterious site called Soup.io began displaying whimsical, stylized bursts of information with few hints as to the authors’ identities. Last year one of my wife’s suburban hausefrau girlfriends starting communicating via Posterous. This year the trend has blossomed into a veritable cottage industry dubbed light blogging by Twitter luminaries such as Steve Rubel, Louis Gray, and Robert Scoble. All that remains is for Oprah to give her blessing and the charge of the light (blogging) brigade will begin. Until then, you can find your bliss via services such as
If you still want to write a novel (more than 10 sentences) you can always go to
But that would be so 2-years ago. Whatever.
18
09 2009
I’m no Nostradamus but …
Earlier this year in my Smalllaw column I wrote about the use of location-based services and Twitter to create a real-time feed (posts, dockets, hearing outcomes, files, research, etc.). Let’s call it a Casestream. And while location-enabled applications such as Brightkite, Twinkle, and Loopt have been with us for a while, the advent of Google Lattitude means everyone can experience and potentially adopt such services. Just look at the potential of applications such as Foursquare. How much longer until the legal profession gets into the act?
