These days it seems everyone is trying to intergrate Visual voicemail into their wireless service. I ran across a post where YouMail has brought the service to the iPhone in a post here from Cnet’s Jessica Dolcourt.
I also heard Verizon charges for this service, while everyone is trying to make money off the Visual voicemail one service is not. Google’s former service GrandCentral has been providing this feature for over two years now it’s been renamed Google Voice. At one time you could invite people to the service, but that option has been turned off for some time. This is the latest post about Google Voice:
To clear up any confusion, please note that there are no Google Voice invites available at this time. There has been no distribution of any sort of Google Voice invites, as these invites do not exist. The best way to be informed when Google Voice becomes available for sign up is by providing your information at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/.
I would suggest you signup, also if you already use Google Voice leave a comment about how you like the service.
WordPress hands down might be the best blogging platform around, but with so many changes so quickly do you really need to upgrade today? I always say when it comes to upgrades on blogs or on standard Operating systems, unless the update is a critical patch don’t upgrade immediately. Most of the time you find that if you don’t need to upgrade then take your time and let the experts do all the break fix testing.
Give the community time to download and install especially those who are new to blogging and WordPress. I would say give it about a month before going for the upgrade and if there are plug-ins that you use check out the developers site to see if they have checked that it works or is having issues before you upgrade. WordPress is at version 2.8 which means in my opinion if your at anything below 2.7 you need to a least upgrade to 2.7. With that said please check your plug-ins before upgrading this will help you in the long run.
On the other hand WordPress 2.8 seems to be another great release from the guys/gals at wordpress.org. They say that over 700 fixes have been made to this version. WordPress has release a video that shows some of the improvements and I would say those improvements alone are reason to upgrade, but again wait a month and I think you well be out of hot water by then.
Symbaloo is a personal online desktop, in my opinion a customizable home page of sorts, it’s currently in beta but has been around for a couple of years over seas. The service is free and there is no need to signup unless you want to customize this home page for viewing in more than one place/computer. Symbaloo is very similar to iGoogle which is miles above Symbaloo, but as we all know competition is always welcome.
Looking over my friendfeed today I came across a post from Lockergnome that simply said “Spammers Harvesting Sorrow From Twitter“.
The post talks about how spammers could be harvesting email addresses
directly from your own steam on twitter. Lockergnome referenced the
article from ZDNet “Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time”
And while the article talks about a script that can be run to harvest
the emails in real time, we further get a understanding of the Twitter
TOS (Terms of Service).
You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links (”Content”) that you submit, post, and display on the Twitter.com service.
- meaning your on your own if you tweet something you didn’t like
After reading the ZDNet article I decided to do my own test with tweetgrid. If you do a little bit of search for things such as “email me at” you can see all kinds of addresses. A sample search on search.twitter.com using gmail.com OR hotmail.com OR “email me at” Weather these email addresses are valid or not is a whole other story but look at the image below.
Savvy internet users who have their own domains know you can create a temporary address such as info@mydomain.com. Send that out as a tweet and then after they are done, delete that address. Situation solved and over in my opinion. Although for people just coming to twitter and the internet for that matter a little help with this is understandable. Some people were posting in comments on those blogs that “Well your stupid if you tweet your address.” While I understand why they say that, most people forget we all come to the internet with limited skills and over time we understand more and more.
Just know this email harvesting is not new, but with twitter gaining warp speed traction in some of our everyday lives we are opening up to those who want to do harm with the info we tweet, always be cautious.
One of my twitter friends posted on her blog “Palm Wanted To Know If I “Got Opinions?” I just happen to find this post in over 1000 RSS feeds which I should clean up, but that’s another story. Anyways Tessa took the challenge and answered the call.
If you can tweet your opinions about Palm phones in 140 characters or less, we want to hear from you.
Back in 2000 I moved out to Denver Colorado, it was a time in my life when I felt I had to get away from the comforts of home (Atlanta). While in Denver I started working for USWest wireless which later became Qwest Wireless. I was part of a data team which was started to test, teach, and help troubleshoot phones used for data communications.
The team was great I learned a lot, one of the phones we used was the Kyocera Smartphone 6035. As a techie you don’t know the joy I got using this phone. It was my first introduction to a true Smartphone, and while I use a Blackberry now I would be very open to the new Palm phone. I am the type of person that can give you accolades and in the same sentence tell you that your missing the mark. It looks like Palm wants both sides of the coin. That’s the kind of review that makes change and improvement possible.
So anyone who wants to become a reviewer for Palm should take the survey here. If your selected you will be notified on May 8th good luck to us all.
It would be a pleasure and honor to be one of the choosen few.
WordPress hands down might be the best blogging platform around, but with so many changes so quickly do you really need to upgrade today? I always say when it comes to upgrades on blogs or on standard Operating systems, unless the update is a critical patch don’t upgrade immediately. Most of the time you find that if you don’t need to upgrade then take your time and let the experts do all the break fix testing. 
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