I have just downloaded the new Typepad for Blackberry App so I can blog on the move. Really I just did this as part of our MindShare Interaction social communications experiment to see how connected I can really get between my mobile, desktop, laptop and the various profiles I keep. At the same time I added the Blog It application to my Facebook so I can blog from just about anywhere now. Of course I can also access Facebook from my Blackberry so that connects the whole lot together.
I rather proudly downloaded the mobile Facebook app by clicking on a banner ad on the Vodafone Live homepage. I am not sure why I was so proud, I certainly don't usually click on banner ads in a usual web environment but mobile internet still feels fascinating and new to me.
In fact "mobile" in general makes me feel rather old school and something of a laggard. Despite having talked about mobile being the future in various presentations over the last few years, despite having had a mobile phone within arms reach of me for the last 10 years, it's only now I have suddenly woken up to the fact that social communications of all kinds will be embedded in every activity - including mobile devices. Mobile communications accelerate the possibility of joining social communications in the real and virtual worlds in a way that computers would never allow.
So this is old news of course, children, teenagers and 20 somethings have known this for years. But now I have discovered I can Twitter, blog, get Facebook updates, take pictures, upload them to Flickr, find an address on Google Maps, check my email (work, hotmail, gmail), read my RSS feeds, play stupid time wasting games whilst being anywhere in the world and without having to access a wireless internet connection and carry a laptop, it's all starting to make sense.
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