Category#iPhone

ITEC 4700: Class 16 – Monetizing Web 2.0

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Thursday we started off with several of my students asking if my Twitter account had been hacked. And yes, it had. Someone got in and sent out the following message: ‘hi, i’m 24/female/horny… i have to get off here but message me on my windows live messenger name *****@hotmail.com’. They had direct messaged a large number of my followers. (I was also alerted by someone who...

What product means today

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I recently posted about Retail 2.0 and the impact the convergence of real world and digital world will have on retail products. Examples of this convergence are QR codes, augmented reality; browsers and “the other flavor” and things like SixthSense. These examples and how they’re applied are bridging the gap between digital and physical. Businesses that create products have been...

Distimo releases its monitoring tool

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Today was a good day. I got to talk to Vincent Hoogsteder of DISTIMO (@DISTIMO). They’re a company that I posted about two months ago and after reading there most recent report on the status of “all things application store” I thought it would be good to get them on the phone and talk about what they do and how they came to be. Just in case you don’t want to read my original...

ITEC 4700: Class 12 – iPhone

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Thursday we reviewed the iPhone and how it could impact social media. That is to say that it hasn’t yet although it has experienced tremendous growth and some claim it is behind Twitter’s explosion. It’s the device that’s driving the smartphone explosion in the United States and could be behind the growing number of those accessing social networks via mobile devices...

Will Android apps live in the clouds?

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As you all know, Google’s Nexus one was released Tuesday and as I read the review on Engadget, I noticed that there is only as 1g of memory. The only explanation for this that I can think of is that Android apps will at some point be essentially shells with the meat of the application living in the cloud. Of course this would only be possible if connectivity is virtually guaranteed. (This...

A day in the life with my iPhone and a mobile search white paper from Taptu

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I’ve just finished reading a white paper by Taptu entitled Exploring the Touch-Friendly Web by Peggy Ann Salz of mSearchGroove. In it, she outlines how a student uses his iPhone during the course of the day and it made me think about how I use the device. I didn’t think of myself as a super user but after reading it, I may in fact be labeled as such. Below is my story and I’m...

iPhone vs. Android

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There has been a lot of hype around the Android release and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying that Android was “about to explode”. Sounds great, but . . . I have to lived through the “Linux on the desktop” hype so it’s really hard to imagine that Android or BlackBerry will ever really give Apple a run for their money. In the end, I believe that...

NEWS FLASH! Typing on a handheld device sucks

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Saw this video on TechCrunch the other day and aside from the fact that they should have found someone who could type on an iPhone, I was surprised this is still a point of conversation. When people talk about making the device easier to use they are speaking about input. Typing on a mobile device sucks. Don’t care if it’s a Blackberry or an iPhone. The output is what matters. A user...

I don’t want to be like an Aye-aye

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With respect to an iPhone and how you hold it, it’s important to remember: vertical = camera/phone call horizontal = data I’ve been very surprised at the number of apps that don’t rotate the screen to allow the user to hold the device so that the majority of the screen can be utilized for data entry/content manipulation. The iPhone is a data-driven device and it interrupts the...

O iPhone-only-social-network, where at thou?

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Why is there no iPhone-only social network? Nothing against iRovr but their traffic doesn’t look very compelling. Michael Arrington wrote a pretty good piece about this back in February of 2008. His focus was on iPhone users finding each other via GPS and triangulation. This is the kind of service that Brightkite offers although I’m unaware of an “iPhone users only”...