It's all about power

My last post talked about power, which seems to be the theme of late. This time, I'm talking about the single, most important app on my Samsung Galaxy Note - Juice Defender.

First, you get the power

Why do so many coffee shops offer wi-fi, but nowhere near enough power outlets? I've walked in and out of four coffee shops in an area one night and found none with a seat near the too-few outlets (if there were any at all, which was not the case in every shop).

I can't understand the value of advertising "We've got Wi-Fi" when there are so few power outlets. If there were enough, I'd have sat down and, out of a sense of obligation, I'd have bought something with exorbitant profit margin baked in.

Anyway, I discovered an area in a shopping centre that had a few tables, chairs...and power outlets along the wall.So I pulled up a chair, plugged in my laptop and my Samsung Galaxy Note, and turned on the Note's mobile hotspot feature in order to wirelessly connect my laptop to the internet. 

The best part is, I didn't have to give some coffee shop $4 for a drink.

A new day

Last year, I wasn't quite sure in which direction I'd venture forth once my trusty Palm finally gave up the fight. Palm was king, and there are actually still things it did better. However, as "Larry the Liquidator" once said, the last buggy whip company probably made the best buggy whip...but who needs buggy whips in the age of the internal combustion engine? Times change. Long live the king, but the king is dead.

I went with Android (on a Samsung Galaxy Note).

And, I gotta say, it's really fun to be a part of the 21st century with the capability to do stuff while on the move.

I've Twylized my tweets

I’ve Twylized my Tweets - check it out).

Twylah organizes your tweets and essentially creates a webpage for you based on your tweets.

There are some other nifty things going on with Twylah, including how internet searches that find your tweets direct searchers to your own site rather than to Twitter, so that you can drive traffic to your site based on your tweeting. 

By the way - I did an internet search for “Twylized” and came up with nothing, so it looks like I’m the first to verbify Twylah’s contribution to social media.

BOYD - a consistent expression of capitalism that will raise costs

Just as corporations once offered flush benefits and pensions as a lure for talent, so did they offer company tools such as laptops and cell phones. Just as corporations seek to squeeze every last ounce of profitability for the owners and executive by trimming pension obligations (everyone's a "contractor" these days), so are they looking at the IT overhead and seeking ways to cut it, hence downloading the burden of device ownership to labour just as the burden of benefits and pensions are increasingly being downloaded to labour.