All Things Found

I’m sure I’m not the only one to feel a bit overwhelmed by the influx of gadgets that 2.0 has brought forth.  My head is buzzing with passwords and screen names and ideas that link the technologies together or make better use of the platforms.

But again, I emphasize the word overwhelmed.  I feel I’m better able to communicate with others, but between switching between my Twitteriffic, matt, Adium, and GTalk, I get buried in windows and can easily overlook people attempting to reach me.

I had a bit of a breakthrough this week when I realized that Adium would support GTalk and import my entire contact list onto its platform.  Which means (eee!) I can have all my instant messages running from one place.

I had gotten really good at forgetting about an open chat I was having with someone via my Gmail window, which was the 3rd of 7 tabs open in one window that, in order to simplify, I’d minimized and let sit for a good half hour before remembering that my poor friend living abroad was trying to ask my advice on something that I’d failed to respond to.  Whew.

Crisis averted.  All too late… but averted none-the-less.