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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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Social media just got faster. Immediacy is one of the Six Valuable Attributes of Social Media. The ability to communicate about something as it happens, as opposed to hours or even days later, is a big part of the appeal of social media. The iPhone 3GS has solved the video problem.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. It took a lot of hacking and ingenuity to make these a reality since most consumer platforms lagged (but not by much) in features (think video finally coming to the iPhone) required for AR. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Foursquare, for example, runs only on iPhone and Android, though other versions are under development. Brightkite.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. WordPress even has a cool iPhone app. A third-party hosted blog (like the Socialized blog) requires a hosting plan and installation on a third-party server. Tags: Social Media.

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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 Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in Wagers anyone? *