I now have a eeepc

Byrichard

Today i went to buy myself a eee pc during my lunch break and by the time I was heading for home  the machine was recharged and ready to be played with. So far my biggest challenge is the tiny keyboard. Hard to touch type on it. Keep having to be careful to press each key properly.

Other than that it took only a few minues per change I wanted to apply and the forums have quite a bi of information.

It’s a nice little machine and it’s relatively cheap. It’s also open source. Means tha it should be interesting to see how much I can get done on such a platform.

That’s it, enough typing on this keyboard for now.

Twitter are stopping SMS

Byrichard

Twitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the application is running.

Worldwide we are going to find that there are a lot of dissapointed users. At the same time the centralised conversation that twitter managed to encourage will spread across a number of platforms. As a result twhirl is a good alternative whilst waiting for things to settle.

If the companies can’t behave then we’ll rely on Air applications to aggregate and monitor what’s going on. I already watch seesmic, twitter, identi.ca and friendfeed with twhirl.

All this to say something simple. If you want me to keep coming to your site provide me with the best user experience possible. If not then I’ll be as uncommitted as possible. So will everyone else