Have you CHA CHA'ed? It's Cool.

Kailey, my daughter, first alerted me to Cha Cha (242 242) text messaging. She came home with a story of how one of her friends was trying to have a conversation with Cha Cha. Of course I was like, huh?

Anyhow, Cha Cha is a mobile texting information service run by a guild of people who look up information for you. While at lunch this past week a few of my cadre mates and I were in discussion and someone asked about the former capital of Indiana. While some were stumped and others were throwing out possible answers I took the opportunity to introduce Cha Cha. I hadn't used it and wasn't sure it would work, but we decided to try it. I mean we are all ed techies so we might as well embrace it. Low and behold we got an answer and then some additional facts on the first capital of Indiana not just the former capital! Very cool.

So, this got me thinking about how Kailey a high school freshman and her friends were using it. It wasn't so much about the information they were looking up as it was a "game" or quest of trying to test the technology and the system behind the service.

Yes, Cha Cha works and it became our tech tool for the week. Fun!

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Thank you Kailey!

Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology

Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology

Check out MIT's tech review site. Tons of great articles on emerging technology in various fields like: bio, nano, info, etc

Scroll down and you will find a link to their podcasts which uses an interesting technology by itself called Audiodizer.

Those people at MIT are too derned SMRT!