I'm ready to help you join the next generation of the Web with a blogging toolkit, Google Calendar and my website: www.todayinaustin.com.
The tools are here, now, easy and free. What we need is YOUR PARTICIPATION to create the DATA that describes our city, Austin, in this new way.
IMAGINE... walking down the street in Austin with a hand-held-mobile-device that knows WHERE YOU ARE and can tell you the newest messages coming from the establishments nearby. The prototype is already being created at MIT:
MIT Museum Without Walls Project for 2011
MIT calls this:
a new model for cultural exchange --
a new means of connecting and building community.
IMAGINE... email completely free of spam. With pictures. And calendar of events. And map. And guest book.
IMAGINE... free last-minute instant messaging options for your business or organization, like Craigslist.
IMAGINE all of this wrapped up in simple, free online tools available to everyone RIGHT NOW.
THERE IS A WEB 2.0 AUDIENCE out there, ready to receive your messages. If you're not participating, you're missing the beginning of the GIANT wave of new media and personalization of Web 2.0.
I urge you to look into this. You'll learn that your participation is SIMPLE and dramatically TIME EFFICIENT compare to updating old websites or crafting elaborate emails.
HOW CAN YOU MAKE THESE MESSAGES? I have instructions for you, for FREE, and you can do this for yourself right now:
http://todayinaustin.com/instructions2.html
