http://phoneboy.com/1195/the-best-way-to-use-twitter VoIP, Mobile Phones, Telecom, and Technology Made Simple Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:02:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://phoneboy.com/1195/the-best-way-to-use-twitter#comment-1273 The PhoneBoy Blog » Reducing My Identities Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:54:19 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/node/1195#comment-1273 [...] Skype is starting to have decreasing interest for me. It too is a walled garden, but there is a certain critical mass that is still there. It’s still a widely used VoIP program, so I will need to keep it around for the foreseeable future. I am on the fence as to whether or not I will spend the money for the $14.95 “unlimited US/Canada calls” deal they are selling. Depends on whether or not that includes “forwarded” calls. May get it anyway “just to have it” but I don’t see myself using it all that much Gizmo Project is a reasonable voice/IM client. It uses SIP for Voice and Jabber for IM. Not only do they deploy open standards, they also accept communication via anything that communicates to those standards. The IM client could use some work. If I could figure out how to get my Nokia N80i working with Gizmo Project (seems to be having some issues), I’d probably just use Adium for the Jabber portion and use my Nokia N80i for the voice portion. That’s the beautiful thing about using Open Standards. The reason to keep SightSpeed is because their video quality rocks. It provides a value that none of the other tools do. When they beef up their IM support, I might also keep it on more often. Right now, I just use it for pre-arranged video calls and the occasional video blog. Twitter is something that’s relatively new. The value it provides to me is that I can use it from anywhere–web, IM, or SMS. It’s not “presence.” It is a nice way to let people know what I’m doing and check in on and with my peeps. It’s asynchronous, and I believe there is some value in that asynchronicity. I can do Twitter whenever I want. And because of how I have it set up on my Nokia N80i, it’s not intrusive unless someone wants to message me directly. Even then, it takes two clicks on my phone to make it less so. [...] [...] Skype is starting to have decreasing interest for me. It too is a walled garden, but there is a certain critical mass that is still there. It’s still a widely used VoIP program, so I will need to keep it around for the foreseeable future. I am on the fence as to whether or not I will spend the money for the $14.95 “unlimited US/Canada calls” deal they are selling. Depends on whether or not that includes “forwarded” calls. May get it anyway “just to have it” but I don’t see myself using it all that much Gizmo Project is a reasonable voice/IM client. It uses SIP for Voice and Jabber for IM. Not only do they deploy open standards, they also accept communication via anything that communicates to those standards. The IM client could use some work. If I could figure out how to get my Nokia N80i working with Gizmo Project (seems to be having some issues), I’d probably just use Adium for the Jabber portion and use my Nokia N80i for the voice portion. That’s the beautiful thing about using Open Standards. The reason to keep SightSpeed is because their video quality rocks. It provides a value that none of the other tools do. When they beef up their IM support, I might also keep it on more often. Right now, I just use it for pre-arranged video calls and the occasional video blog. Twitter is something that’s relatively new. The value it provides to me is that I can use it from anywhere–web, IM, or SMS. It’s not “presence.” It is a nice way to let people know what I’m doing and check in on and with my peeps. It’s asynchronous, and I believe there is some value in that asynchronicity. I can do Twitter whenever I want. And because of how I have it set up on my Nokia N80i, it’s not intrusive unless someone wants to message me directly. Even then, it takes two clicks on my phone to make it less so. [...]

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