Expansion of wifi

Beginning next month, for all you McDonald's lovers you can now grease your laptops or any other wifi device up for free. I'm talking about wifi, its free at McDonalds...how nice of them.

Good job on their part to try to get people in that place. I for one can't handle the smell, so it wont be making me come in.

My question is: When will wifi be available ANYWHERE you are and also for free? For years you've had to pay to use restaurant wifi connections but seriously its old. By now access to internet should be as available as cell phone connections are. I know optimum has "free" wifi....its nice...as long as you arent in a moving vehicle. So its basically pointless. Which is why the phone is so much more reliable.

This is one area that still needs improvement and I'm sure in under 5 years there will be a difference.

Goodbye 2000-2009

I found an awesome timeline here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34385192/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
It documents how technology has grown throughout the years since 2000.

From 2000-2002: there was the growth of iPods, Napster and some basic web surfing on limited cell phones.
2003-2006: From what I remember and according to this time line this was probably the strongest point of the decade. We were introduced to iTunes, Skype, YouTube, and MySpace.
2007-2009: I think this part of the decade was the selfish period. I was happy with what we had from 2003-2006. But it wasn't good enough. We needed an iPhone, Facebook, On-demand apps, and Twitter.

I'm kind of sad to see how much it expanded, I liked the middle years and I'm afraid and excited for the future. Currently, I think its all lame and something new has to be developed.

The author of the article I got some of the facts from, Suzanne Choney, couldn't have sumed up the decade any better, "We cuddled up with our home DVRs, went out with our iPods and friended each other on Facebook".

It was fun.

The Ages of Text Messaging

Almost everyone text messages. Its quick, easy, and has totally killed instant messaging. Texting is the new trend in the communication world. Adults have been forced to learn how to text since thats the only way they will ever hear from their kids. Its true, we hate the phone.

In an article dealing with text messaging it stats that the average amount of text messages a teen sends each month is 2,000 and the overall average per month is 407 messages. My average between December 2008 - November 2009 was 3150. I don't text as much as I use to and I do believe its probably going to begin to decline. In today's age nothing last too long anymore...

Theres so many things to do on our phones now or maybe gadgets is a better word. The computer taught us to like typing things and now we can type where ever we are. What gets better than that? I don't know I'm excited to see what will top it off though. I can't honestly think of anything.

Cell phones have changed our world so quickly, for generations that survived without them to now feel lost without them says a lot. How weird will it be for future generations to think "wow", you didn't even have internet? Or wow you lost service? What does service even mean? Its kind of sad though, we depend SO much on technology now. No one will ever again we freed from it, you can't get away from it. We will forever be controlled.

No More Obnoxious Ads

With everything going on in the world I found an interesting blog on CNN.com.

A bill was recently passed to require tv ads to be at the same level as programs. Uh what? Who cares. I just fastforward if I can or press mute. "CALM" (Commericial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act), is just another dissapointed for advertisers. First DVRs, now, no one will be hearing their ads. Or maybe not, maybe people will think their show is still on and jump back to the TV and find an ad instead. We know when the TV volume lowers that our show is back on. Now we wont, so we will have to keep checking in. So in the long run this could potentially help the advertisers.

I hate ads, espicially since we pay for tv anyway. The more technical the world becomes the more advertisers have to quickly adjust or they loose out. Are we actually just making them stronger? Or will they begin to pull out of TV ads just like in newspapers because we have DVRs, or we wont hear slogans anymore, or how about we many people just don't watch tv anymore. Lets face it, most people don't have time for TV.

YouTube Video of the Year....

I read a small CNN.com article on YouTube.com's most viewed videos for 2009.
Would you be suprised if you knew Susan Boyle was the #1 winner?
Probably not. Her memorable video from Britain's Got Talent has been viewed over 120 million times. Not only is that amazing but this year (2009) has also been the biggest for online video according to YouTube.
Just like when we first discovered those dangerous site: MySpace and Facebook. YouTube was also part of that list. Teens ran these sites, everyone else was afraid. But for some reason it seems that everyone has converted and adjusted since 2004.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
Susan Boyle is a perfect example of how far YouTube reaches people. She was already a star on Britain's Got Talent. Without YouTube, she would have only been known to Britain. YouTube is a brilliant site and has probably been the core foundation of ditching the television.