Do I need a network of social networks?
With Google+ now competing for my attention on my phone and desktop, I’m starting to feel like I’m crammed into a phonebooth (remember those?) with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now Google+.
Friends are updating Google+ but not Facebook, and of course I need to manage my professional network on LinkedIn, and I certainly use Twitter to blast out new blog posts, while simultaneously updating Facebook and LinkedIn. And now Google+. (Of course, I am not even acknowledging Foursquare and Quora).
Where does it end? Will someone please create a network to manage all these networks (no, please don’t, put down that Expo marker and back away from the whiteboard).
I suppose what I’m trying to say is that at some point, it’s all together too much. I can only click on so many “Like”, “Share”, “Tweet”, and “1+” buttons. That, my friends, is indicative of a much larger problem.
Speaking of friends, I now have 1,004 on Facebook. On Google+? 14. Fourteen friends I actually talk to every other day and see every weekend. How refreshing in many ways.
You know what the #1 feature on Google+ is?
Instant photo upload.
All my friends will confirm that I’m positively the worst photo-sharer ever. I have a 32 gb card that has more than 2,000 photos (and videos) across a 6 month time frame. When the card is finally full, I will kick-off Photopalooza for 3 days of non-stop tagging, commenting, photo-albuming “fun.”
With Google+, I don’t have to do a thing to share photos. And it feels glorious.
iPad 2, it wasn’t meant to be
After weeks of waiting, I’ve given up on getting the iPad. Apparently people are still queueing up at 5 AM in front of Apple stores in Palo Alto and Stanford Shopping Center.
While the iPad 2 is thinner, the upgrades are so minimally incremental, I’ve decided to wait for the iPad 3. Hopefully it will be a better leap forward (I was never a fan of the antiquated 4:3 screen ratio and its 1024x768 resolution).
But, I’ve always been a huge fan of Android. Friends of mine can attest I have a thick skin when it comes to peculiar devices like my Dell Streak, which is a cell phone with a five inch screen.
And now to much delight I’ve found my next device: a Jekyll & Hyde tablet/netbook called the Asus Eee Transformer.
Pros: it’s a ten inch tablet running Android 3.0, $100 less than the comparable iPad, runs Flash in 720p, and with its attachable keyboard, it can get 16 hours of battery life.
Cons: Wouldn’t you know it, it’s out of stock. But this time I pre-ordered it =)
How unfortunate Grizzly clearly doesn’t know how to bend at the knee to pass under chairs.
