Do daily tasks differently…the web 2.0 way
February9
If you can do them all, you are one web2.0 super cool urban-geek.
- Instead of doing things silently, record whatever you are doing on Twitter, Facebook and other status sharing services so that your friends know, in case they are bored and have no thing else to do. If you get used to it, you can even make your own slice-of-life novel out of your tweets!
- Instead of reading newspapers and printed books, read them with the Amazon Kindle.
- Instead of reading comics, magazines and color printed books, read them with the Apple iPad.
- Instead of listening to the radio, go to NPR (National Public Radio), Last.fm and several other online radio services. To listen to radio on the go, just use any mobile device that has 3G capability.

- Instead of buying music CD, go to iTunes Store to purchase and download songs, or go to Spotify to listen to music for free.
- Instead of going to a store to buy gifts for your friends’ birthdays, purchase some virtual gifts and send to them on Facebook. If you prefer physical gifts, there are plenty of online stores where you can find unique gifts for your friends, such as Etsy.
- Instead of looking at a recipe book to cook a great meal, it’s faster and easier to browse through social cooking sites such as Allrecipes, TastyPlanner. Remember to take pictures of your cooking and share on Flickr!
- Instead of taking notes of school lectures on the paper, record the whole thing with a hand camera and upload to YouTube. Oh, and do you know that you can add notes into your online videos with YouTube? There are also some online video sharing services that allow you and your friends to make notes on the same video.
- Instead of asking friends for advices about dating, finding new music etc, post them on Yahoo Answer or Mahalo Answer and invite your friends to answer them there. You’ll love the game point ranking system of these services.
- Instead of taking sleeping pills, read CSS tutorials until your mind unconciously tells you that it needs to rest. w3schools is a good place to start. Remember to bookmark your progress on Twitter!