I’m going to add a new kind of posting. Sometimes I need a “reality check” on products or services–that is, I’d like to know what other people think of something I’ve found. (After all, what someone fifty-one years old thinks is cool, might not be cool.)

Here’s the first one:

http://www.goowy.com/

This is a free product/service that integrates (ala AppleWorks back in the eighties) instant messaging from AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ plus email, calendar, contacts, games, and file storage.