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Category Archives: Mobile

Facebook for your iPhone

August 15, 2007 – 12:43 am

I don’t have an iPhone, but now I really want one.
Facebook has launched a slick new interface for the iPhone: http://iphone.facebook.com
It uses Joe Hewitt’s powerful iUi, and it’s even simpler than their web client. You can view your profile, wall, or messages with just one tap. It even has a photo gallery.
I love this simplified [...]

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Top 10 apps from iPhoneDevCamp

July 9, 2007 – 12:38 am

Hundreds of web developers, designers, and ordinary geeks gathered this weekend to build usable applications for the iPhone. The barcamp.org event was hosted at Adobe Town Hall and featured dozens of sponsors. The hack-a-thon began on Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. and culminated Sunday at 2:00 p.m., when each team had a chance to present [...]

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iPhone ads: TV versus reality

July 5, 2007 – 11:29 pm

From the CNETTV Blog, by Rich DeMuro
When I saw that first iPhone ad pop up on TV a few weeks ago, I stopped in my tracks. While I had seen lots of pictures and read lots of write-ups about the phone and its features, this was the first time I had seen fingers on [...]

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iPhone World Premere in SF

July 1, 2007 – 9:59 pm

Did you spend $500 this weekend? I considered it… and then I played with the keyboard. And then I made a phone call.

Without a doubt though, the iPhone is one of the sweetest handheld devices I’ve ever touched, but I’ll pass on the first pass.
iPhone Day

Walking the iPhone line

I got off work at [...]

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Four types of tweets

June 21, 2007 – 12:12 am

Twitter is still new, but I have started to notice that tweets come in four general flavors.
The clicker:
These are usually messages that contain a tinyURL. This type of user is either trying to promote his or her blog, or just sharing a funny link.

I would include corporations that use a PHP script to aggregate [...]

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Why I love Twitter

June 13, 2007 – 2:04 am

It’s passive interpersonal communication. You can know what your friends are doing, without even trying.

When I try to explain the logic behind Twitter, most people respond, "Why do you care?"
Because a simple text message or an IM notification is convenient. Sometimes I don’t really care what people are doing, but it only takes 5 [...]

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