social media and time

Wibiya toolbar trial
If you are reading this in a feed reader you won't be able to see the Wibiya toolbar I've installed on this blog. If you are reading this via the blog site, then you will probably have seen a notification pop up on the site and may have taken a look at the utilities appearing at the bottom of the page.Wibiya adds some social media tools to the page. The toolbar adds the following to the page:blog search and web search boxtwitters by me and about "inn0vate" (keyword)rss subscription buttontranslate this page featurerecent postsrandom post

Buckets and spades and Google waves
I've had Google wave access for a couple of weeks, and fortunately have enough contacts with accounts to be able to try a few things out.So far I'm thinking it has potential, but in this beta stage there are a few drawbacks - and at present there are a lot of experimenters still working from an email mindset. No judgment intended here, just we are all constrained/influenced by our past experience and make assumptions about how to use new things that don't quite hit the mark. A few thoughts on playing in the waves (perfect beach day here on the Gold Coast - can't help the bucket and spades analogy):Waves with more than 10 or

Early expeditions with global position tracking
Since getting an iPhone back in May, I have been playing with GPS applications. Motion-X I mentioned in my last post. Since then I have started using RunKeeper (the free version). Its focus is on tracking exercise activities - so quite different to motion-x. Although I was using Motion-X quite happily to track my walking and jogging.Runkeeper uploads a track from my iphone to the RK site (http://www.runkeeper.com) where graphs tracking my weekly and monthly are presented. Very motivating to boost the distance travelled every week. RK also shows my split times - my second kilometre is always the quickest it seems.Check out this morning's

Cafe Papyrus [Flickr]
petaj posted a photo:

Octagonal training room [Flickr]
petaj posted a photo: I didn't count the sides, but I overheard someone calling it octagonal.