Most essential online
If someone were to ask me this: What are the minimum tools or services you need most essentially that would not affect your online life? I would say: Gmail, Blogger and Flickr and I have a perfect combination of what I need most essentially online and wherever I go. (If you have a personal domain, then replace, Blogger with WordPress.)
Those are the products/services that I’ve come to love and admire. Beautiful products or services. Everyone of them. In the seemingly simple interfaces, they pack a punch, a host of wonderful options and features. They are a work of art, radically intelligent and they excel in whatever they do (special emphasis on Gmail and Flickr).
I have a ton of admiration for Gmail, but I haven’t touched my other fetish: Flickr. Tags, annotations, Organizr, Blog, Groups and more. Wow! It would need a whole post, so instead, I point you to this and this.
If I were a hitchhiker, or a backpacker or just visiting a foreign place, I’d add just one hardware to the above list: a GPRS cellphone (with a built-in camera). Why a cellphone? Because cellphone connects all of the above services via email. Check, write a post, send a picture—all via email.
So, who really wants to lug around a notebook anyway?
Flickr is cool, and gmail too
i wish google provided access to their mails via gprs.. i mean i cant open coz it require encrypted login and sony ericson phones don’t support or might be i am not aware how to go about it i tried once but didn’t work…
i can open yahoo on my cellphone and others
Feb 19, 05 at 14:17wow you have also moved over to Kubrick. Seems like the new fad to do these days.
Feb 19, 05 at 22:30Poonam, No. Just in the process of upgrading, without taking the credit away from Michael—because Kubrick is a work of art, really.
Feb 19, 05 at 22:44Ohhh i see. Got it.
Feb 20, 05 at 00:25Puneet, I didn’t know that Sony Ericsson phones can’t handle SSL.
Feb 20, 05 at 08:54