I am working towards a new focus for 2011, trying to use the technology on-hand to be more efficient and stay more connected. I was struck by social media guru Chris Brogan's recent blog Make Kitchen Table Companies with Cloud Plus Mobile followed soon after by a Brad McCarty blog on how smartphones have become "notification devices."

I had a PDA for while, but I kept letting the batteries run out and I'd lose all my data.

My first cell phone was a hand me down from my Mom, in the $5 a minute cell phone days, and looked like the phone you'd see John Wayne using as he was calling in an air strike in some World War II movie.

I had a Captain Kirk Flip Phone for too many missions; I got a Razr long after Razrs had stopped being cutting edge. After I got my Blitz I found out it was marketed specifically for teenage girls to text their girlfriends with.