The view from ... Well, guess.
iPhone Tech Talks, on October 12th 2007 (at Washington D.C.'s JW Marriott)
Well, what is this and why did I go? The iPhone Tech Talk is a focused look at what the iPhone can do; and how it might be leveraged to achieve its potential for web applications. Coincidentally, this talk also covers the sibling product, the iPod Touch (in fact anywhere below where I'm referencing iPhone, it's safe to assume that the same applies to the iPod Touch). And, in my opinion, it covers a whole movement away from WAP and other mobile web technologies toward the Internet as it will be seen in the future on almost every mobile device. The cell phone industry is about to embrace the software industry; and it's all Apple's fault.
Mozilla just announced they'll catch up to Opera and Safari with real mobile browser technology, soon. (I'm honestly not sure where MicroSoft's Internet Explorer is in the mix, if you know leave a comment below. Does Windows Mobile have a full-fledged browser?) Other phones are already popping up that aspire to Apple's groundbreaking approach to mobile internet delivery. The fact is, the internet is starting to grow beyond the desktop (and laptop) to ever smaller devices, but with the same content quality. While retaining many familiar capabilities, there are some trade-offs and exceptions; more on that later.
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No, don't get me wrong, I'm not mad. If Apple drops the price of something I bought by $200, am I really so cheap & insensitive to fast moving market places? This is the revolutionary product that brought the internet in to my bathroom and in to my car (while I drive). The iPhone is all that it's been pumped up to be and more. So no -- really, seriously -- I'm not mad. Yeah, the way they did it was so insensitive, coming so soon after the launch. The mea culpa was small too: "hey we're sorry come spend some play money, err ... a gift card on us ... you buy buy ... ringtones." Another good pitch from Steve.
So here's my pitch (if you will): to borrow some words from Steve, I would like to be "very aggressive this holiday season." I'm going to try to recoup the money that I may or may not deserve, by selling some funny shirts. Yes, funny's always debatable given my sense of humor; but if you want to help a fellow victim then buy one of my damn shirts (powered by CafePress) here:
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So I'm sitting in my car, at the park & ride lot, surfing the web on an iPhone; listening to Jim Cramer's podcast; drinking a triple grande caramel something-or-other. I find a cool new site mentioned on Digg called BuiltWith, so I add it to my del.icio.us account. Then I start to think how crazy it is that I can now reflect on stuff in a car with the full force of the internet, including the ability to post useless recollections like this to a blog.
I really like the fact that Blogger lets me (reliably) post entries from an email ... which means I can snap a photo, insert it into an email, add a subject that will become the post's title & add a little text before or after the picture that will become the body of the post. Now if I only had something important to say.
Oops, there's the rest of the carpool ... gotta run.
[Update]
builtwith.com?paulgriffinpetty.com
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... direct from Wolf Trap: Squeeze (opening band: Big Head Todd & the Monsters), playing "Annie Get Your Gun."
The concert kicked ass.
Sending pics directly to Blogger from the show kicked ass, too.
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