I’ve been hearing a variety of discussions lately about changes in technology and the changes that are coming around as part of generational changes. I’ve heard from numerous parents that tell me their kids don’t email anymore. They communicate via text messages and Facebook and twitter, but email is old school and too slow.

Email too slow?
Is email too slow? I don’t really think so, but it’s clearly not instant in the timing that’s provided by twitter and text messages. I find myself texting messages to people more lately instead of making a phone call. One of those reasons is …read more

I’m not sure how many people were probably aware but you could use Outlook to send and receive SMS notifications right to your computer. The service was provided by a feature called SMS Link. It worked fairly well, although I had some general user functionality issues I think could have been improved.

Microsoft has announced via email that they will be discontinuing this service on August 26, 2009.
Microsoft’s SMS Link service will be discontinued effective August 26th, 2009.  Once this service is discontinued, current users will no longer be able to send SMS messages through Office Outlook 2007 using SMS …read more

Twitter continues to become more and more mainstream these days. Being talked about by a variety of celebrities as well as being mentioned in more and more commercials every night it seems. The question is whether or not it’s got a trick up its sleeve that you may not have thought of before now.

You’re probably well aware of the twitter 140 character limit that was established to work with the limits set by mobile phone carriers for SMS text messaging. Did you know that you can take advantage of twitter and use it as a free texting distribution service …read more