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Users of iPhones and Toasters are Delusional

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A recent “ study ,&# and I use the term loosely, attracted a lot of attention with its finding that iPhone users are delusional. And like so many new products, even those that have no innovation whatsoever, the early iPhone lacked certain features, which came along on later models. I replied, “I have a better idea.

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“Nearest Tube” Early iPhone Augmented Reality App

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iPhone app, have introduced Nearest Tube , a 3D Augmented Reality (AR) app for the iPhone that overlays a tube map on live video to help users quickly find the nearest tube station. Tags: Social Media Augmented Reality iPhone app Nearest Tube. AcrossAir , developers of the TVGuide.co.uk

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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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And the iPhone 3GS and Posterous represent the latest advances in real time communications. Sharing short clips *fast* is threshold feature… Was just talking w/someone who said his Flip was going to stay in the drawer w/advent of iPhone 3GS - impulse video is key.&#. The iPhone 3GS has solved the video problem.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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And Yelp is an interesting player in this market, boasting a huge user base (huge by Foursquare standards) that it brought into the location-based world with an iPhone app earlier this year. The Yelp iPhone app alone had around 1.25 million users back in January, compared to around 500,000 today on Foursquare*. Wagers anyone? *

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The Disappearing Future

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Today I downloaded the Netflix iPhone app and sat at a table outside a local deli totally in awe that I could stream feature length movies, almost anywhere, on demand, to my phone -- with pretty good quality. The futurists are screwed. Are you kidding? That would have been unimaginable.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. Foursquare, for example, runs only on iPhone and Android, though other versions are under development. Brightkite is available for iPhone , Android , and BlackBerry.

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Could you go social-network-free for one day a week?

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In the acknowledgments to my book, I quote my eight-year-old daughter who told me, when I first started bringing my iPhone into the dining room, “Dad, no electronic devices at the dinner table.”. I’ve always tried not to be overly consumed by anything electronic. And seven years ago I got fed up with TV and canceled cable.