All my life I have wanted to own a Triumph sports car. It is not really so much a question of transportation as prestigue. Since owning an old car that breaks down often is not really in cards at the moment I bought a Motorola Triumph handset from Virgin Mobile. Although it is not exactly the same thing, the Motorola Triumph is currently the most powerful handset you can purchase on the market without a contract which I suppose provides a measure of prestigue in the pre-pay market. It has two cameras, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, email, music, and prepackaged widgets among many other features. The only product feature its shares with a Triumph sports car is radio. After I bought the phone Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) very thoughtfully purchased Motorola Mobility Holdings (NYSE:MMI) confirming the wisdom of my purchase. Now my challenge is to master my new handset. Since it has all the power of 360/370 class IBM mainframe learning to drive a Triumph would be easy by comparison. I learn by writing so my solution is to blog about how to master the Triumph event at the risk of boring you gentle reader.
The Yammer Experiment
On a corporate conference call, the Vice President of one of my clients suggested we join Yammer. When I first received my invitation some weeks ago I thought it was malware spam but I was mistaken.Yammer is a microblogging service similar to Twitter but focused on business (see its Wikipedia entry). Yammer asks the question "what are you working on" which could mean anything from "what are you doing for a living" to "what are you doing for me this minute". As an experiment I am going to invest some of my own time in learning what Yammer does and determine if it can be used to increase my personal productivity.
