If you had any questions that this years world cup was gonna be freaking awesome, that will all go away as soon as you watch Nike’s new ad which will be live on TV shortly.  Check this out.

Well, here we go, Travelers Rejoice!

Google Nexus 1

The Google Nexus 1 has been Released!  With much fan fair and anticipation Google has finally released their new unlocked quad band android phone called the Nexus 1.

What does this mean for you the traveler?  Well, because its unlocked it means you can go anywhere in the world and simply replace your SIM card and get service.  This is huge for people who like to live a vagabond lifestyle.  In addition to this feature, rest assured the phone will carry with it all kinds of neat little bells and whistles like the turn by turn direction feature and so on and so forth.

The prices for the Nexus 1 were just released and were a bit higher than anticipated.

By itself the phone will be $530 and with a 2 year contract with T-mobile it will be sold for $179.

A bit pricy, but may very well be worth it.

Let me know your thoughts, will you buy one?

I never though I would say it, but i genuinely miss the seasons right now.

Growing up in the Midwest(Michigan & Ohio), fall was always such a gorgeous time of year.  You could literally smell winter coming as you gazed around at the semi-barren tree branches and heard the crunch of dead orange and deep red leaves underneath your feet.

College football Saturdays on a brisk fall day were some of the best days of all time.  Maybe it is the grass is always greener mentality which I have been accused of before, but as I sat on my couch today watching Michigan Football in board-shorts, I began to actually miss Ohio for the first time in 5 years.

Well, maybe it is Ohio or maybe it the mountains, or maybe its just the restlessness I get in my soul after staying in one place for too long.  Everyone has certain elements of their youth that brings back a rush of memories.  For me they are freshly cut grass, the smell of a hockey rink, morning in the mountains and the smell, look and feel of a perfectly crisp fall day in the Midwest playing football in my backyard.

OK, enough reminiscing, something has to give, gonna have to get some real fall weather in my life real soon…..

So the question in everyone’s mind of late has been how can I aggregate?  Social media has gotten so big and there are now so many platforms, how can I get them all in one spot.  New social networks such as Friendfeed  has sprung up and offer aggregation of your social profiles.

But what about bloggers?  How can they bring all the conversations happening about their blog post back to the blog where they belong?

Echo by Js-Kit

Enter Js-kit and their new commenting tool called ECHO.  Echo acts a bit like a social aggregator.  It brings back all the conversations happening out in the swocial sphere and brings that back onto your blog.  So if someone leaves a comment on facebook?  Bang! it comes right back onto your blog as a comment and the same with twitter and flickr and so on and so forth.

Now you have a tool to aggregate all the buzz happening in your space and bring it all back to where it belongs.  On your blog.

Enjoy and visit http://js-kit.com/ to check out ECHO!
Mat