Business Value of Twitter

I am envious of several of my IBM colleagues who are spending the next few days in Orlando, Florida. No, they are not hanging out with Mickey and Minnie. It's Lotusphere 2009! Even though I am not there in person I am able to get a very detailed report what's going on via twitter.

I'm a new adopter and the business value of twitter has slowly increased. Today that value culminated as I received live tweets on the iPhone via TwitterFon from Luis Suarez, Luis Benitez, and Chris Pepin while they attended Lotusphere. These individuals are leading the way in social software adoption internally within IBM and externally with our clients. I'm excited to attend Lotusphere via twitter the next few days.

Bad AT&T

I could not agree more with today's NY Times article, A Text Arrives. Oh, It's Just an Idol Ad.

I've been an AT&T customer for a week now and up until this point I have been happy with the service. While "the network" Verizon preaches may be better, I have seen no real network problems.

However, if they continue to send me more unsolicited text messages advertising shows such as American Idol. I may have to go back to Verizon. Hold on. No way...can't do it. I tested the Blackberry Storm yesterday and the iPhone is so far ahead of any Verizon device that I would put up with A LOT of unsolicited text messages before I switched.

iPhone Lesson #1 - Less Laptop Time

That's right...I am now enjoying less laptop time as I integrate the iPhone into my life. One task I have shifted to the iPhone is my gmail usage. While I still respond to some email via my IBM Thinkpad. I read 99% of my emails via the iPhone.

When I do respond to email via iPhone I make them brief and to the point. Shouldn't all our emails be like that already? Laptops give us so much space to write I guess we think we should fill it.