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January 01, 2007
New Years Resolutions
The only new years resolution I made is that I keep writing in my blog.
So Alec Saunders and the IOTUM team developed a new application for the blackberry and they want me to try it out. I really want to try it because I think the team is doing a nice job of creating contextual communication.
But I am leery. Years ago I ended up on the wrong side of a discussion with Jonathan Rosenberg about the possibliities of feature interaction problems in SIP correctly. So while everyone may be able to keep SIP working write, I am not sure my Blackberry can handle all these apps safely. Right now my Nokia with the Truphone app works like a charm as a phone. But I need to reload the email because of some internal IT issues. And I am my own support system here, since I am not using standard systems. "Deviant Caveat Emptor"
The trade off is the relevance engine. In the theory of Voice 2.0 (or purple minutes as Jeff would have said) the value is immediate context of the communication. However, my issue is that I do not feel I have the luxury of reading only the things that I want. Similar to the clean plate club that has made me the hefty person I am today. It's all or it's incomplete.
In the last few years, I have gone through four machines and my mailbox needs serious purging. Because of this now I have a garbage can for a hard disk files all over that read , "SVON85.ppt" representing a presentation that was almost complete. Of course nowhere on my machine can I find "SVONfinal.ppt"
I suspect that like Xenon I can never reach the finish line.
Getting a single view of my files, emails and names has become the obsession of mine. And it includes my Exchange Server and Blackberry address book which has lots of dupes and some deceased friends, who probably are not anxious to hear from me.
So with the understanding that I am probably an accident waiting to happen I am willing to try the new application. It's a new year, on with the apps.
Posted by carl at January 1, 2007 04:12 PM