Every day, more & more people discover that Twitter is a great tool to drive traffic to your site, build new business, and to help retain existing customers.

But what entrepreneur has the time to “Tweet” all the time, on top of everything else?

Here at webgroupWest, we recently started using a new technology that automatically Tweets when there’s new content on the site, and can even automatically Tweet when there’s interesting information from elsewhere on the web, which we feel will be of interest to our clients.

It’s pretty cool stuff.

If you’d like to learn more about automatic Tweets to support your business, just contact us (and of course, you can always follow us on Twitter).

…or just here, in North Coastal San Diego County?

Back towards the beginning of this year, I was amused by Verizon’s campaign to illustrate that their 3G network is significantly larger than AT&T’s, and even more amused when AT&T responded that they “cover more people,” displaying a map that looked bigger than Verizon’s.

I wonder how many people never figured-out that the AT&T map, which “looked better,” was actually a map of their voice coverage, and not their 3G coverage?

About that same time, I began reading all kinds of scathing reports about how AT&T’s 3G coverage was not just spotty, but really pretty slow in some areas.

All of that back-and-forth got me wondering… I had started noticing what I perceived to be a slow-down in the 3G service provided by T-Mobile on my wife’s Android phone, and decided to see how well it was really performing, by conducting a series of speed tests over time.

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I have to admit, I’ve considered myself “honored” for having been a part of the GrandCentral beta for the past couple of years.

In a nutshell, GrandCentral gave you a (free) phone number for life, let you route that number to any combination of phones (landline, and/or cell), and a unified voicemail system that notified you when you had a message.

Google bought GrandCentral in 2007, and nothing much happened to the service… Most followers thought it died.

Last week, Google announced (in typical, unnecessarily mysterious, vague, and cryptic Google fashion) that GrandCentral was being re-launched as “Google Talk.”

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Every now and again, there’s a cool little app that comes-along, and makes life easier.

Let me introduce, “Affixa.”

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Chris Wood in the UK (Affixa’s developer) over the past months, and now that the beta is done, and the product is in release, I have to rave.

Download Affixa now!

Affixa lets you make your web-based email application your system’s default email client (right-click a file, and send using Gmail, or Yahoo…).

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