We are all Rube Goldbergs Now.

This site is dedicated to the spirit of Rube Goldberg - the inventor of complicated, whimsical machines designed to do simple tasks.

The spirit of these inventions are to join together simple machine interactions in an interesting way, to achieve the desired result.

Nowadays, software services enable us all to become Rube Goldberg.

Using off the shelf capabilities, I recently used my iPhone to take a picture, upload it to Flickr, then blog about it on one of my Blogger accounts.

All in minutes. All for free.

The recipe ingredients are:
1. Download the (free) FlickIt application to your iPhone.
2. Link your FlickR account to your blog (takes just seconds).
3. Take a picture with your iPhone.
4. Upload to FlickR.
5. Use "Blog This" functionality on FlickR to post a blog entry on Blogger.










Voila!

The point of all this is that every day, new software services and capabilities are being created by talented developers. It is up to each of us to put together the pieces and work (or play) more efficiently.

This is an exciting time. Stay on the lookout for new, cool capabilities and make Rube proud!