Well, as I
mentioned on 3rd April, I got married. Well done me. And, as I also mentioned, I was attempting to use a variety of different online social-type services from my mobile phone. So... how did it go?
I started the day by sending a text message update to
Twitter. (It wasn't quite the 'Twitter wedding' that some people have achieved - but I didn't want to be too distracted during the important bits).
Then, when I picked up the flowers, I sent a MMS picture message to photo-sharing site
Flickr. This wasn't perfect - I didn't use all of Flickr's
mobile options so I needed to 'tweak' the file name and description later. I also
updated this blog by visiting Blogger.com from my phone's browser. (I'd wanted to use
ShoZu to upload a photo to Blogger at the same time but I’d written the blog post in a separate document and couldn’t cut and paste it into ShoZu).
Later that day I uploaded a
photo and a short note using the Facebook application on my phone. (It’s an HTC phone running
Windows Mobile). In fact, all of the day’s updates showed up on Facebook, thanks to
FriendFeed, which takes information from other social networking sites and adds them to Facebook as well.
I updated my
location on
Foursquare, which was a little bit messy on Windows Mobile because you’ve got to tell it where you are. (Unlike the iPhone app, for example, which can automatically use GPS to narrow things down). I also used
Google Latitude to keep a small circle of friends up-to-date with where I was. (If I'd wanted to share a one-off location update, I'd have chosen
Glympse instead).
I left a short phone blog - a phlog - using
ipadio. Not only does ipadio put your voice blog online, it also uses
SpinVox to convert your words to text. It's all as simple as making a phone call. And I recorded a short video clip using
Qik. Rather like a video version of ipadio,
Qik doesn’t just record but also streams live, which means people could watch or listen online in real time.
Reasonably pleasing, I'd say. Anyway, I'll be talking more about my technology - and the services I used - in this week's edition of
The Fonecast on Wednesday.
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