I haven't blogged much about the iPhone. Actually, I haven't blogged much of anything for the past few months. Students and the coffee shop have preoccupied both my mind and my time and I don't see this changing anytime soon. But I do miss blogging and I'm going to try to make up for lost time today.
One of the things that I have missed blogging about is what is considered as the most anticipated consumer device ever: the iPhone. If you haven't heard of the iPhone before, I think you better crawl out from under your rock. The iPhone is getting so much attention from the media that, quite frankly, it's hard to ignore. It's surprising to see how many are talking about this device that not even out in the market yet. That's about to change since there is only 6 days to go before the launching of the iPhone, the device some say will change the world (of the cellphone).
Since I'm blogging today anyway I might as well sneak in a post that's iPhone related. This will be short though.
The iPhone will run a version of the Mac OS X and with that in mind, developers were drooling at the prospect of being able to develop applications for the iPhone. Last WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs announced that developing for the iPhone is possible but not what the developers had in mind. With security and stability issues in mind, Apple decided that best apps for the iPhone are web apps. This sent a collective groan in the developers present, or so some say. Apple haters or some developers are calling Job's announcement a stab in the back. Software developers say that web apps are not real apps at all. They are actually calling people who develops for the web as pussies.
While the whining continued, some were quick to realize the potential and jumped on ahead. The first web app released was David Cann's iPhoneDigg, which allows iPhone users to browse Digg. Nothing spectacular mind you but it opened up the rich possibility of doing these web apps for the iPhone. A website was put up to act as a central repository for the latest iPhone web apps. The iPhone Application List keeps visitors up to date to the latest third-party applications for the iPhone. They have to date about 30 iPhone apps listed. So much for the whiners.
Huh? iPhone? What's that?
Exhibitionism 2.0.
Is privacy or the idea of it dead? It would seem so to some who are connected to the series of tubes we call the interweb. While some sectors are clamoring for more privacy when we are online, there are those who willingly would give up a little of their privacy for the community or simply to get more page hits.
While I tend to err in the side of caution, being careful sometimes to restrict what I share online, I have, to some degree, voluntarily given up some of my privacy to make my web experience richer. One of the services that I've been using is iGoogle homepage, which I've been using for two months now. One feature that I've been using is the Google History feature. Google History records all the searches I've made with Google search and produces reports such as the sites I've visit the most or the trends of my searches. This is not exactly a community thing since the data is only restricted for my eyes only. There are some sites or services that does make you contribute to the web community by making you give up a little of your privacy.
Mashable, a social networking news website, lists down twelve services that offers sharing of attention data. These services will allow you to share your taste in music or tell everyone what software you've been running. If you don't mind sharing a bit of yourself to the interweb community, you might want to try these services out.
Supermarket 2.0
What will the next version of your supermarket look like? It's all about the tags, baby! A funny and interesting take on the next generation in supermarket experience.
Best 5-second video. Ever.
This video makes you from WTF? to LOL in record time.
