Josh Padnick’s Blog

The movie says it all. That is really cool!

So, I’m in Park City, UT for a conference right now. I was working on my laptop where I have a “Call Controller” installed (see screenshot at right). I got a call in to my office line, chose to have it instantly forwarded to my cell, took the call and now that’s one less phonecall I’ll have to catch up on when I get back.

Suppose I had missed the call. If the caller had left a voicemail I would have received an email with an attachment of the voice message and the caller ID information, so now I don’t have to “call in to check voicemail” anymore; I can just check my email, which I can do on my cell phone anyway.

For support calls, multiple people at our company receive the same voice message, and that voice message can be easily passed around from one person to the next since it’s a WAV file. Finally, I can login and check our company call log for the day to see if anyone else called and maybe didn’t leave a message.

I know some people think technology makes their life more complicated, and I can see that, but for me, technology is like a little assistant who does a bunch of little helpful tasks for me that just make life marginally easier and more enjoyable. My props go to VOIP, for making telecom so easy today.

Look closely at that picture.  There are two Microsoft Zunes on the table and a bunch of photos.  But those photos are digital images and the woman is manipulating the photos with her finger, dragging and dropping them onto her Zune.  I was blown away when I saw the demo videos for Microsoft Surface.  This is some seriously cool stuff!

Between this, Joost (by the way, I’ve got Joost invitiations if anyone wants one), and the Web 2.0 stuff coming down the pipeline it really is a changing world we live in.  If I were lounging around with nothing to do, I can think of at least three businesses I would try to start right now using Microsoft Surface.

Can’t wait to see where this technology goes over the next few years…