Raise your hand if you’re a gadget junkie.

Yeah, me too.

Remember when you got that awesome new gadget that you just couldn’t get enough of? You know the one. You ran the battery down by noon every day because you just couldn’t put it down.

Everyone you knew heard about (and probably saw) your new gadget. How many times did you say, "dude (or dudette), you gotta get one of these?" Too many times to count, right?

It didn’t take long before everyone you knew – friends, family members, coworkers – heard about your new favorite toy.

Why is it, then, that we can share all about our newest little obsession but we can’t share about the saving power of Jesus? Isn’t he more valuable than anything we can own or hold in this world?

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3. Official Twitter app for Android released

When we tweet what’s happening around us, we share not only our thoughts, but also web pages, photos, videos, location…anything. Mobile phones are increasingly part of our lives, and we seem to be doing everything but making phone calls. Reading the news, watching a YouTube video, and taking photos at events like the World Cup are things we expect to do on mobile phones – sharing our experiences on these little screens should be just as easy and fast as on big ones.

When apps work well with each other, sharing becomes as second nature on machines as it does in person. The Android platform is really good at that, and we’ve worked with the Android team to make it super easy to share what’s happening. Today we are excited to announce that Twitter for Android is available in Android Market!

I’ve been using this off and on over the course of the evening and I must say, it’s very polished. It doesn’t support multiple accounts but other than that, it’s fast, seems to use few resources, and looks great.

Scan the QR code on your left there to get it free from the Android Market now.

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• YouVersion – the best Bible app for Android
• Seesmic – for Twitter. Free, fast and easy to use.
• Vignette – the best photo app out there, period.
• Barcode Scanner – for scanning product information and QR codes
• Listen – integrates with Google Reader to pull in podcasts to your phone automagically
• bTunes – duplicates the iTunes on iPhone music player experience. Yes, Apple got this right.
• Pandora – quality streaming radio
• Advanced Task Killer – kills those tasks that eat up battery life
• 360 Live – for keeping track of my friends on Xbox Live
• Bedside – the best alarm clock app out there
• redbox Codes – use it to find codes for free rentals at redbox kiosks
• EasyTether Lite – free tethering app, get online anywhere you have 3G!
• Not Call Log – sends you back to the home screen or the dialer after a call instead of the call log (where it’s easy to accidentally call someone)
• Simple last.fm Scrobbler – so you can scrobble what you listen to in bTunes
• SugarSync – keeps my files synced between my computers and my phone

What are your “can’t do without” apps? Tell me here!

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Think Twitter and Facebook updates sprinkled with goodness from such sites as Picasa, Flickr, Gowalla and Foursquare.

If you have an iPhone or Android phone go to http://buzz.google.com on your phone’s browser to get started.

Otherwise you can connect to Buzz right inside Gmail.

Don’t have Gmail? You should fix that.

Can Buzz kill the others to reign supreme? We’ll see.

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I am in awe. And you guys are my heroes.

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• iPad? Seriously? When someone from Boston says iPad how will I know they’re not saying iPod?
• Do Apple fanboys really want to carry around three devices? I’m weighed down enough by my phone and laptop, why would anyone want to carry around an “in-between” device that’s too big to be a phone but not big enough to be a full-on computer?
• What niche does the iPad fill, other than the “look, we wear money hats!” niche for Apple?
• Hey Apple, laptops already have keyboards! Why make a keyboard attachment for the iPad?
• Wow, only $30/month for unlimited data? Great, let me add that to the $30/month I already spend on my phone’s data plan and my $50/month Internet bill.
• No, seriously… iPad?

Am I the only one not drinking the Kool-Aid here?

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I’m asking you to take the 30 day Seesmic Look challenge. Why?

If you use Seesmic Look for 30 days you’ll be hooked on Twitter.

Seesmic Look is a fancy new Twitter client (read: a program that runs on your Windows PC that brings Twitter to your desktop) that will make using Twitter a much more fun and easy experience.

Don’t believe me? Check out the image below and tell me that doesn’t look like quality stuff.

So, go grab Seesmic Look (if you already have a Twitter account just sign in; if you don’t, click Create Account in Seesmic Look to create a Twitter account) and start tweeting.

Last but certainly not least – be sure to click here and leave your Twitter name in the comments so I can follow you! You can go to http://twitter.com/shawnw to follow me.

I’ll make a follow up post in 30 days to see what you think.

Let’s go!

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1. A solid SMS client – I love the look of the SMS client but sometimes it takes forever to load (and occasionally crashes). The very nature of SMS requires speed (heck, the first S stands for short!) and the Droid SMS client misses the mark.
2. Gmail Tasks integration – Tasks isn’t a Labs feature anymore. It’s enabled by default in Gmail. So why isn’t it built into the Android Gmail client? Big fat zero on this one.
3. Google Apps calendar integration – not there yet. Instead, you have to share your Google Apps calendar with your Gmail account’s calendar to see your Google Apps calendar on the Droid. Weak.
4. A great music player – the built-in player barely has more than shuffle and repeat. It’s also ugly. I’ve seen three year old flip phones with better music players than the Droid.

This list makes it sound like I hate the Droid. Not at all. I’m very happy with it. The Gmail client, for the most part, is amazing, the browser is almost as good as a desktop browser, the actual phone software is responsive and easy to use, and the user interface is clean and easy to understand.

The four features I mention simply should have been better at launch. If you own a Droid, your list is probably different than mine (if so, be sure to share in the comments!). I’m also sure we’ll see fixes for these things with future updates.

Be sure to use the comments to ask questions, and to talk about what you like and what can be better about the Droid!

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As of today the number of people I’m following is about 2/3 less (700 down to 280ish). I’ll probably whittle that down to closer to 150 by the weekend.

Why?

I want Twitter to be about the conversation.
I want Twitter to be about learning who someone is, what makes them tick, and how we can connect.
I want Twitter to be about creating real relationships.

If you’re ready to chat, follow me on Twitter by clicking here.

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