Surprising that I have to explain Twitter to my 16-year-old. The NYTimes has an exciting round up of what Twitter has already become and how giving machines automatic access might make it universally useful.
Still hasn't made any money though.
Just as real laptops are getting small enough to carry in a pocket (like the Sony Vaio P is pretty, light but reviews are poor) pens are becoming real pocket computers. I've already been using the Oxford Easybook system which uses a Logitech digital pen, which turns handwritten notes and diary entries into date on Outlook and other Microsoft applications.
Now there is the LiveScribe system, which records audio as you take notes and links the two.
All of these rely on paper covered with specially printed tiny dots to give the cameras in the pens some orientation. LiveScribe has a small screen on the pen, too.
Could this all heading towards a technology that turns paper, with all of its advantages, into a throwaway computer?
We began with Twitter last week as part of an item on microblogging and its golden future. It proves to be true - at least that it works keeping up with contacts using short messages.
So I'm pursuing the process, hoping to combine it with picture. And I'll post the results here - once I make sure no one is going to swear!
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