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Bryan May 21st, 2008

This is a post for Watercooler Wednesday.

When I first signed up for Twitter months ago, I must confess I didn’t get it. Who wants to keep refreshing a web page to see what their friends are doing? Apparently they added the interfaces to IM and SMS after I signed up or I just missed them. Updating my twitter from the web, Facebook, my instant messaging client or my phone allows me to share some really cool (and some really ordinary) moments with my friends. But best of all, those special moments my friends choose to share with me get delivered to my phone automatically.

Twitter has really helped me to know more about my twittering friends, like fellow blogger Randy Elrod of Ethos. And I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised at all to learn that another fellow blogger, Tom Mangan of Two Heel Drive, twitters as well.

It surprises me how much detail people can actually share in 140 characters. But what has really surprised me is how much people twitter from unusual places. Such as

• Randy has a great post on what he calls Light Work (checking email and updating Twitter at red lights)
• I’ve twittered from the hiking trail before (it’s not every day you run into a modeling shoot on the trail)
• You know you’ve twittered from the bathroom… Don’t lie

But this tells me that Twitter has arrived. Crow will be twittering a journal of her thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. That’s right. No more waiting to transcribe a journal entry (wifi coverage is pretty spotty in the backcountry you know). Now all she has to worry about is keeping that Crackberry charged up.

What are the strange places you’ve twittered from?

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Bryan May 11th, 2008

I had the pleasure of spending last Tuesday with my old friend Randy Elrod, new friend Spence Smith, and a host of other bloggers or soon to be bloggers, talking bloggng and Web 2.0 at a conference/thinktank called LifeWork 2.0.

Here are some of the cool people I met.

Tags: Blogging, Lifework 2.0, Web 2.0

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Bryan April 14th, 2007

That’s right, I said it. Now you can view a collection of hikes in
Google Earth by turning on the Trimble Outdoors Trips layer under Featured Content.

The content is a little inadequate in middle Tennessee, but there are numerous documented hikes over in the Smokies. And, you can submit your own hikes for inclusion along with GPS tracks and waypoints, photos, video, and more. So come on middle Tennessee hikers, let’s fill up their hard drives with GPS tracks for local hikes!! If we all kick in, we’ll have a wonderful database of hikes around the country and that is what web 2.0 is all about baby.

HT: lifehacker.com via besthikes.com

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Bryan March 10th, 2007

Look out sliced bread, Hey What’s That? will give you a run for your money. That is at least for us outdoor types. What is Hey What’s That? you ask? It’s a mashup of Google Maps, topographic data, and mountain peak names that gives you a 360 degree profile from any predefined point along with the names of the peaks that surround it. If you know the latitude/longitude, you can custom enter the coordinates and it will generate a custom profile for you (It takes a few minutes). The visibility cloak option will shade any areas you can actually see on the Google Map. A very cool Web 2.0 app! Now if I could just get my GPS to do all this for me!

Thanks to the folks over at ModernHiker for the heads up!

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