I want an all-in-one communicator!
Here's a list of ways in which I currently communicate with others:
- corporate e-mailing through outlook
- corporate e-mailing through a web client
- private e-mailing using my ISP provider's services
- mixed private & professional e-mailing using GMail
- chatting using mainly GTalk
- group chats through chatterous (which isn't really useful for large groups)
- publishing blog items on an internal blog (rarely)
- publishing blog items on a public corporate blog (about once a week)
- publishing blog items on my public personal blog (which you are reading right now)
- leaving comments on blog posts
- posting updates & replying to updates from friends on Twitter
- sending direct messages on Twitter
- phone calls over VoIP using my ISP provider's services (fairly frequently)
- phone calls over VoIP using Skype (very rarely)
- phone calls using a land line
- phone calls using a cell phone
- sending short messages using my cell phone (very rarely)
- sharing documents on Google Documents
- an e-mail client
- a web browser
- a Twitter interface (a web client or desktop client)
- RSS reader
- a cell phone
- a chat client
- a VoIP capable phone
- the URL of the admin interface of my personal blog
- the URL of the admin interface of the corporate blog
- the URL of Twitter
- the URLs of the various webmail interfaces I use
- ...
I am thinking of a single tool that provides me with the following services:
- notify me when someone writes about a topic that interests me
- notify me about comments I receive on a blog post (for all blogs I publish to)
- notify me about updates to documents I share with others
- notify me about e-mails that really interest me (for example because of their contents and because they are sent to me by people in my network)
- notify me about my friend's whereabouts and activities (twitter)
- allow me to contact people using various methods depending on my relationship with these people (e.g. twitter reply, leaving a comment, send a direct e-mail, chat, call, ...)
1 comment:
One of my twitter buddies (thanks @hjvanderklis) pointed me to Digsby, which indeed does many of the things I ask for. I am giving it a try!
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