My Existence

How come no one has made these yet?  I have had a number of good discussions lately on a variety of topics and as we all know, Twitters 140 character max can be a bit limiting when discussions require big words or more than one sentence.

Sure, we can send out a number of tweets, but that could be considered spam and while it is the spamee’s responsibility to unfollow whom they believe to be spamming, that still doesn’t give a better option to have a thought out discussion with big words and complete sentences.

So who is going to do this? I came up with a few “no brainers” for starts.

• Use OAuth, duh.
• Chat creator & second person* joining the chat have “admin” rights, in which both** are required to remove a person from chat.
• Ability to record chat and Save As.. as simple text file.
• Ability to tweet / retweet acceptable messages, IE: Those under 140 characters.
• Same functionality as TweetDeck; Shortening of links, for starters; all the way to translating?
• Google Wave functionality?
• Chats get cleared, purged and emptied 24 hours after

Being a long time AT&T subscriber, I have come up with the perfect response AT&T should use as counter-marketing.

Copy, basically, the Verizon commercial except add some additional visuals….focus on the Verizon map of the US and then overlay it across a spinning globe, showing coverage area.

Then do the same for their own coverage area in the US, then overlay it across the globe.

See who has better coverage then….am fairly certain AT&T wins that battle as GSM is a more widely adopted technology outside of the US compared to CDMA.

I tried to confirm my speculation, but unfortunately the number of hoops you have to jump through to view such a map is directly proportional to how good their coverage is in my opinion.  AT&T wasn’t all that difficult, considering GSM technology has about an 81% market share:  http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_world.htm

Finding a CDMA map however, I had no luck.  Verizon’s(Like AT&T’s) website does not offer an all in one downloaded map, the best option I could seem to find would be located here:  http://www.cdg.org/worldwide/index.asp

AT&T would of course need a disclaimer stating not all services may be available in all areas, but I think that goes without saying.  Personally, I would rather have a signal for a voice call in more places, than a 3G/Edge connection as that voice signal could be what saves my life.  Not a data connection to the internet.  At least it is a lot less likely a life savor.

To follow the biggest band-wagon on the interwebz, I am hereby dubbing all content updates on my blog here to be a part of the “2.0″ age of the net!  As such, I will do my best to ensure the following few key points that seem to be cropping up everywhere on news sites, blogs and other locales through which important topics are digested to the sheep huddled over their desk staring at their screen.  Hopefully, what is on their screen is SFW!

• I will routinely get easily verified facts horribly wrong.
• I will without hesitation, misquote every single noteworthy person.
• I will also assume I knew what they were TRYING to say, and speak for them.
• I will also bia unbiasedly give you my opini the facts on important things.
• In that spirit, I will allow you to draw your OWN conclusions on the subject at hand, not trying to sway your thoughts.
• So long as you read what I say and agree with it as if it were carved in stone.
• If any reader of my updates gets unruly, I will without hesitation block their access to my site.*
• Unless they pay me.  Or give me cool free stuff.  Or they..wait, SFW!
• When I review items, software or games; I will of course ensure that my review is not based on the actual product, but small snippets of comments from other people and how I perceive the product should behave.  Please see the first bullet for further clarification.

So, if you are Nokia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, any PC game developer, any 360 developer or anyone with a boat load of cash you would like for me to review, please contact me!  On top of reviewing your product, for a small fee I can assure you that your product will receive a favorable** review by me and the patrons of my site will know they want to buy it!

So please contact me today!

*Individuals are deemed unruly by me and as such I reserve the right to deem anyone who disagrees with me unruly.

**Unless of course your competitor pays me more than you did to write an unfavorable review, in which case I will contact you and let you know that, giving you a chance*** to pay me MORE than they did to publish a good review.

***Your competitor will also be given a chance** to increase their fee.