I decided to do something about my fractured Internet lifestyle. Email here, IM there, blogs blogs blogs, more email, another stupid way for me to be narcissistic, etc etc.
But no longer. Today is day one of my new project, allow Google to make my life easier.
NYULocal suggests you forward your NYU email to GMail to avoid having to use the shitty NYU mail client. I am going a step further and consolidating as many of my web-doings as possible, using the Goliath's many offerings.
I already use maybe slightly above the average amount of google -- Google News, Reader, Images, Blogger, Youtube, Maps, Alerts, what have you -- but there's so much more four-colored fun to be had! Or so we'll see. Today I've forwarded my NYU mail to Gmail (so far, not annoying), started using AIM through Gmail (again, pleasant), set up iGoogle as my homepage(making to-do lists is my #1 hobby), and messed around with nearly every other Google application. The sheer number of them is pretty amazing; feels not unlike mid-'90s America Online, where you didn't really access the Internet as much as open an AOL application that played some goofy dialing-in noises and then presented you with 15 or 20 buttons for things like "Shopping", "Personals", "Chat", and "4Kids."
So far my ruling is: knol feels too much like wikipedia, Orkut feels too much like facebook, and I'd try Google Chrome if it weren't only for Windows.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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