So far I’m following a daily wine recommendation (until 1st January when I’ll have to find a daily granola shake Twit to follow), Techcrunch, because they’re real heavy Twitters and I like the noise my iPhone makes when it receives an sms.
I’ve fixed the sms thing, dumped Trish, haven’t worked out the @blahblah, reply etiquette, nor how to do it. None of my friends are on Twitter and I can’t stop thinking about it’s potential. I dreamed I was a blue tit last night, a blue tit with a usb port and always on 100 gig wifi connection. I was half Korean and half French, but could only speak English and I was asking Tweeters to help me find my way home. Then I woke up to my daughter demanding she speak to Miss Piggy. I have foolishly introduced You Tube to her in order to placate the tantrums she’s having, on account of being 2 years old and dealing with teeth growth for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m getting into Twitter and thus regularly answering the question ‘What are you doing?’ and then broadcasting the answer to all and sundry. For those of you immune to Twitter’s childish allure it’s like Facebook status on ketamine… which given the general disquiet about the Facesoft Beacon advertising system is a somewhat apt analogy. Ketamine will either put the mighty stallion to sleep or send it down the discotheque to dance it’s jaw off.
I should clarify ‘getting into’. I’ve logged on, left the account dormant for 3 months, wondered why a lady (who turned out to be a man) called Trish Hussey was sending me text messages late on Friday nights and which I had to explain to my wife: Read the rest of this entry »
I’m too busy smarting with iPhone envy after meeting a similar bearded creative with a hacked iPhone to bore you with the results of my search for the perfect cleaning cloth to wipe away those grubby incriminating smears from my touch screen. But hats off to El Jobs for creating both the most alluring phone to thieves (and if it ever happens please let it be a gentleman thief and not some crackerhead… you know like a cellular Robin Hood robbing iPhones from beardies to feed swans or something.)… but also a phone that uniquely captures their fingerprints with such beautiful accuracy.
Some choice picks on the iPhone development landscape:
‘So Steve Jobs has finally announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. It will be available sometime in February of 2008… more‘
My iPhone arrived a week ago and since then I’ve spent a lot of time looking for the optimum cleaning cloth in order to remove my grubby finger prints. I’ve battled pizza and the need to check my mail knowing full well I’d probably cause some hideous smear which would send me into a paroxysm of panic and handed it around to my friends like a newborn whilst looking carefully over their shoulder as they coo and rock.
My first email to my wife was ‘I no longer need human interaction’ which in my naivety contained the signature, ’sent from an iPhone’. ‘Good she replied, does this mean I can get hold of you now?’.
With my iCal sync’d she most certainly can.
I’ve learned to delete the signature, there’s no need to rub people’s face in it and I enjoy playing with the magnified bubble cursor anyway so deletion and correction are pure pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »
Big in Japan was a song in the 80’s. I know because I used to dance to it. It’s also a turn of phrase in this case, ‘Unazukin dolls are big in Japan’, these eggs with faces in Alpine attire answer your questions with an unambiguous yes or no.
Like the ability to make the Queen’s face on a £10 note look like John McEnroe, rumours abound as to why there is an empty row on the iPhone screen.
Well come January 15th 2008 El Job’s ‘Big Mac’ World announcement may be the opening of the iPhone software development package to third party developers. Seems they’ve been monitoring all the hacks and learning from them. Given Apple estimate they will have sold 8 million handsets by the end of next year, this presents a great opportunity for developers. Whilst the talk is of games, voip apps and services I hope to see savvy brands looking at developing branded applications and using the iPhone as an appvertising platform. Read the rest of this entry »
In 1988, when the people first rose against the Burmese military junta, it took weeks for news and pictures to filter out of the country and even now journalists are having to report on the recent protests from neighboring Thailand.
UPDATE: Great piece at Mobile Active on this subject.
But now we are witnessing a different sort of protest, one where mobile technology is central to galvanizing public outcry and enabling the UK and US Governments, amongst others, to condemn the violent actions of the corrupt regime.
At great personal risk to themselves people are using their mobile phones to record the violent oppression of the monks and distributing the footage to video sharing sites and blogs.
It’s Friday that means more Rementer and the knowledge that the iPhone will be only 2.5G, cost more than a new iMac for the phone and contract and will be stolen from myself, by myself, such is my need.
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So says Brian Oberkirch in his How To Use Twitter Guide. 
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