tokerud's technology treatsfinds, thoughts and comments on personal tech, social software, blogging, emarketing, mobile gear, wi-fi, os x, mac, the future...Social Networking Made Easy, Part 8- July 31, 2003 Helping Each Other: Type 1 - Reciprocity Besides the social aspects and enjoyment of meeting new people or the intrinsic value and importance of forming personal and business relationships, a major aspect of networking has to do with helping each other. At first glance, you might think of reciprocity or the, more primitive, old saw "I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine". There is an implied score-keeping to this. If person A does some special favors for person B, then B owes A..http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000066.html Creating Trust by Trusting- July 21, 2003 There's an important little story over on Kotte.org. It's called Business lessons from the donut and coffee guy. It seems that Ralph lets his customers make their own change. As a result, he probably loses a little change each day and he is able to serve more customers and has a really loyal following. Jason Kotte aces the breakdown of the dynamics of trust in the situation and how it makes Ralph's business successful. It's worth reading and pondering for my business and maybe yours......http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000065.html Panther Address Book helps social networking- July 19, 2003 I am thrilled to hear that by the end of this year when Mac OS X Panther is released, I will be able to note connections between my contacts in my address book. The screenshot I saw showed fields for friends and assistants. It tells me who people know (at least who they know that I know they know). The new Address book will also have a Scripts menu which will hopefully spawn the writing of lots of AppleScripts to extract value out of the Address book. Even though I'm no AppleScript programmer,..http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000064.html Branding Yourself Online- July 18, 2003 If you want to become known or better known in your field, read this book! The full title is: Poor Richard's Branding Yourself Online: How to Use the Internet to Become a Celebrity or Expert in Your Field. The author is Bob Baker and he's a good writer and a great nuts and bolts personal branding thinker. Branding Yourself Online was written in 2001, after the dotcom bust, so Bob knows that the internet is not the answer to everything. Given the economic doldrums we've been going through, a...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000063.html I signed up for T-mobile wi-fi- July 17, 2003 Although I occasionally seem to have trouble logging on, I'm liking it a lot once I get on. Their T1 internet access is faster than my home DSL. And usually I have it all to myself. Only $20month on a month by month basis - no long contract to worry about. The $20month price is only available if you are a T-mobile customer already. Otherwise it is $30mo. I could deal with $20month thinking of it as $1 per day. Since part of my daily routine is a morning walk to Starbucks, I'll actually get my...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000061.html Sony Wireless Handheld due Friday- July 17, 2003 Brighthand reported today that Sony is announcing a new Clie PDA: 300 mhz, Palm OS 5.2, wi-fi, bluetooth, camera, nice keyboard. The press briefing is to be in San Francisco! The cute factor on this little guy is up there. It's got a landscape-oriented 480x320 screen - I immediately like the landscape orientation better for this device. It's believed that it will be called the Clie PEG-UX50 . Dimensions are 4" long x 3.4" wide x .7" thick and it weighs 6.17 oz. Not particularly...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000060.html Ominous P800 Story- July 17, 2003 Bummer. I thought I was safe on this issue when I bought the P800. If you'll recall, I cited Dan Gillmor's post about Cory Doctorow's post saying that T-mobile was refusing to support Sidekicks that had unauthorized software put on them. I just assumed that this wouldn't be a problem with the P800 as there's a third-party software market out there. People routinely buy additional software for the P800 - as I said before, it is definitely a computer, not just a cell phone. So this latest comes...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000059.html Better Screen keyboard for Pocket PC- July 17, 2003 You know me. I want a keyboard. Here we have another creative response. The Spb keyboard is an on-screen input device in software. That way, when I don't need it, I can use the full available screen space as, well, screen space. And the price is right for a change - $10. Of course, it would help immensely if this software worked on my new Symbian 7-based P800 cell phone. Oh well - another price I pay for choosing the cool but, not as dominant, Symbian OS for my new cell phone... Maybe, per...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000058.html High Tech, High Touch- July 16, 2003 As much of a geek and technology enthusiast as I am, I feel the need to balance all this with a post about the rest of the picture that makes up my "good life". The phrase, Hi-Tech, Hi-Touch, hasn't gone away since it was coined by John Naisbitt in his book Megatrends in 1982. That book stayed on the best seller lists for 2 years! It was based on ten years of social research. With his eye on as much social and trend data as he could find, Naisbitt could see, even then, that as the...http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000057.html Social Networking Made Easy, Part 7- July 15, 2003 Things have at least ostensibly become a bit difficult of late for our workingman and workingwoman heroes. We no longer have the 20th century luxury of being kept employees trading our freedom in for a secure job. That's really what the bargain was and still is when you can get it. And lots of people want that deal just so that they can follow the customary path to security. We don't grow up safe and snug in our communities and families anymore knowing we'll be taken care of by our kin if worse.http://www.tokerud.com/movable_type/000056.html |