Tweets on 2009-04-01
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009- RT @richardbranson: Calling all entrepreneurs – introducing PitchTV: http://tinyurl.com/dcoo8d #
Archive for 2009
Tweets on 2009-03-31
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Tweets on 2009-03-27
Friday, March 27th, 2009- Too bad – was best pop music mag by far RT @elizabrooks “Ad Age: Blender magazine closes http://bit.ly/rnNyS” #
Tweets on 2009-03-16
Monday, March 16th, 2009- When will facebook update their iPhone app to support pages, groups, etc? #
Tweets on 2009-03-15
Sunday, March 15th, 2009- RT @JustineBateman “Soon to replace the EMMY Awards: RT @iawtv TheStreamy Awards Nominees have been announced: http://www.streamys.org” #
Tweets on 2009-03-13
Friday, March 13th, 2009- New twittelator pro iPhone app is pretty good. Definite improvement. But why does it no longer show my API calls left? #
Amazon Should Launch a Desktop Kindle
Friday, March 13th, 2009Amazon recently launched an iPhone Kindle application that allows you to read your purchased books on the iPhone. In fact, you don’t even need to have a Kindle to use it. It seems to me that the next step would be to launch a desktop or web based Kindle interface. I can think of a lot more use cases where people would want to have access to their Kindle purchases from a computer when they might not have their Kindle available.
In other Kindle speculation, Tim O’Reilly mentioned the idea of marrying the Kindle with O’Reilly Media’s Safari book subscription service. I think this is a great idea. In fact, it’s such a great idea that if they do it I may buy a Kindle.
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t really love the idea of buying digital copies of novels, biographies, etc. I really enjoy having a printed book. I think a better model would be a “dual use sale”. If I cold buy a physical book on Amazon and pay a small charge, perhaps $2, to also have it available immediately on the Kindle that would interest me. I still want to have the physical book and I’m not interested in purchasing the content twice for different formats.
Barring a business model change in the publishing world that would facilitate that, I would love to have a Kindle for reading technical material. Books, journals, conference proceedings, etc. If Amazon can get the PDF support on the Kindle to the point where a PDF technical document looks as good as their proprietary e-books, I would buy one.
Having Kindle access to the Safari library would be similarly appealing. So much so that I expect I would buy a Kindle and subscribe to Safari if that integration were available.
Tweets on 2009-03-06
Friday, March 6th, 2009Tweets on 2009-03-05
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Does Google’s Mobile Sync Replace Sync in a Blink?
Monday, March 2nd, 2009I’ve written a lot here about the iPhone Sync in a Blink application. Recently 
Google has released their own mobile sync solution. It masquerades as an Exchange server from the iPhone’s perspective and offers automatic wireless over the air syncing. While running Sync in a Blink to manually sync contacts is not a huge burden for me, I’m always up for services that make my life easier. So I’ve set up Google mobile sync for the iPhone to compare it to Sync in a Blink.
While Google mobile sync does indeed sync my contacts automatically, it does not provide the same sync quality as Sync in a Blink. I had forgotten that one of the things that drove me to Sync in a Blink originally was that many of my contacts do not have email addresses. Unfortunately, Google’s sync algorithm still seems to key everything off of the email address. Which means that notes or updates that I add on the iPhone do not propagate to my Google contacts database when those contacts do not have email addresses.
I suspect I’ll turn off mobile sync and go back to using Sync in a Blink. I may try to get them working together, although my initial attempt at doing that clobbered my contact list and I ended up having to restore my iPhone from a backup. So I’ll be more careful if I decide to go down that road again.
