I’ve had my new touch only about 2 weeks now, and I have to say it’s a great device. Im using it more like a PDA device than just a music player, although I do have music, podcasts, etc. on there too. I’ve been noticing that I’m using my laptop less when going out, just because I can do about everything I did on the laptop ( email, twitter, chat, checking blogs, websites, etc.) Plus the can do some business related stuff on there as well like billing, which is nice since it doesn’t keep me tied down to the desktop or laptop all the time. I would recommend in getting one if you want to have one for the apps or putting music on. It’s been a delight to have and use.

I currently have office space, but I  like the idea of getting to work with others everyday. Co-working spaces are popping up all around NC with the latest two groups that are in Charlotte and Asheville, which is a lot closer to me than the other groups that are in the Eastern Part of the State or the ones in South Carolina. I still wish there was a co-working space closer than an hour from me. To see a list of all spaces through out the Carolinas, and the world check out the main Co-Working Wiki.

I’m so excited to know that social media meet-ups are finally coming to NC. Charlotte has already had aWordCamp, Co-Working Events, a lot of social mediameet-ups and now on Saturday the first ever BarCamp. I hope we see many more events like this for NC. I am also happy to see the Co-working movement make head way in NC too. Carrboro Creative Coworking was the first co-working group established in NC. According to the co-working wiki  there has been talk of  more  co-working groups coming to the state too . I know there is one coming to Asheville, but still wish we could get something a little closer here too.

Like to go to BarCampCharlotte?

Just post a great post on my other blog at Lockergnome.com Yesterday, I was reading my Twitter stream yesterday, and found a great link from FactoryJoe aka Chris Messina. He posted a great tutorial he found for putting your mac or display to sleep with a simple key command. …. Click here to Read the whole article  about my great discovery.

I’m going… I mean my site is going Naked for standards again this year. CSS Naked Day    was created a few years ago by Dustin Diaz.  CSS Naked Day is a one day event to promote  Web Standards. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, and a good hierarchy of structure.  This year the time for your site to get naked is on April 9, 2008.  So just in 3 days This site will be going naked for standards. Is your website getting Naked for Standards too?

As everyone in the tech community now knows, Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn  in cash and shares.  How would this effect the tech market with only having two big Companies like Microsoft/Yahoo and Google. How will it effect some of Yahoo best services like flickr, upcoming, del.icio.us, etc. We’ll have to wait and see…. but I think it’s a bad move if Yahoo accepts, since Microsoft does have a bad rap for trying to Monopolize and take over the tech industry.

AOL finally decided to start using a XMPP, which Google Talk has been using for a while now. ICQ and AIM services are now compatible with XMPP, but still in the beta stages. Check out the Wiki Page to learn more about this new and exciting announcement. 

http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/AOL_Alpha 

Depending on how far back you’ve been on the Internet, it’s pretty likely that you used to use Netscape Navigator to browser the web. AOL has announced that they are killing off Navigator development. There will be some support for the browser till January, but it’s recommended that you switch to Firefox now. (more…)