Research:Mobile Strategy Research/USA/Notes/092301

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1/2 day in meetings, researching ideas to take to wmart. 70% at a computer. if i'm travelling, very infrequently at night. thursdays - meetings.
borrowing friends bikes, bought one myself last night.
excessive in researching, craigslist, used bike store. my friend went with me last night. he was my research tool.

technology[edit]

never taken laptop out of house. gf's laptop got stolen and she borrowed mine. i rarely work on the weekend and one time i had to write a blog post and i took it to a cafe. roommates have computer, don't use them.
chrome - gmail. click on the first two or three sites - if not helpful, close them down.
opens three new tabs before he looks at any of the links. if wp didn't come up, i probably wouldn't seek it out. i never go to wikipedia.org and search that way, wikipedia just always comes up.
GOOGLE MAPS BACK TO WP PAGES OF THE PLACES?
google images - to check out a place. gripe "summit lake" it's hard to know if it is.

likes the contents (table of contents) layout - that helps me figure out if this is going to be a useful site
ctrl-f weather
good reference maps
sometimes i find images helpful.
i have a good amount of faith in wikipedia. i'm not super techie. i take everything as is on wikipedia. that's maybe why i like it so much.
i use wikipedia as a launching point.
copy a bit of text - does new search in lieu of clicking on internal links.....even if it does take him to a wikipedia page.
CONTEXTUAL LINKS (as internal links).
uses references. for "fibrowatt" but also google searches fibrowatt. i'll look for academic journals. might be a little more neutral...
i suppose i have blinders. doesn't notice anything outside of the main content area.
time, quality level, what do i have to add.
i go to wikipedia when i'm trying to learn stuff. so what would i have to add?
click on edit and i would think, what the fuck is this. i would be really hesitant. this is kind of intimidating.
maybe it's because i hold wikipedia to such high regard. the vast majority of time it is the accurate source.

blog at work.
i have a one way relationship with the internet. technology and social media is not my thing. i have a facebook page but....people get mad at me.
close friends family member had an emergency....then logged into facebook.
if someone makes a comment on a photo i was tagged in.
work blocks pandora.
if i posted a review of something it's not because i was happy with it.
sf chronicle - read the comments, sometimes i'd post but then they required a log in and i didn't care enough to do it.
nytimes, espn.
facebook to use pictures.

phone jokes. my friends make fun of my phone. yeah, this is was their first touch screen.
reason for buying it: smaller environmental impact, small, cheap, replaceable.
one the main things i'd do on my phone is txt. why does it so many steps to txt someone.
predictive text - i have to go to options. scroll down, go to abc.
6 page load, you have to click go to next page. don't like it. want it to load all at once.
metro pcs - unlimited calls and txts for $45. assume internet is unlimited. is prepaid.
have to click the next page so it loads before i go under the tunnel.
particular article - that stuff i save for a real computer.
biggest paint point - piecemeal loading.
other websites: nextmuni (bookmarked some of the lines i use more frequently).

if i didn't have friends with smart phones would i need one? they are supporting my non-smartphone habit.
there are not that many things that i need on the internet that i can't just wait for until i get home.
looking up a question at the bar is nice but not that essential.
choose load type?
call someone and ask if she's in front of a computer.
even this keypad is a reason to not do anything on this phone. might actually go to WP, one less step.

do you text, given the pain it is? photos music links in sms? send someone a wikipedia page?