Summertime, and the blogging is easy — apologies to George Gershwin. While I’m enjoying some r&r enjoy this encore from the Rodeworks archive. I thought it an appropriate way to observe the 40th anniversary of the first small steps on the moon.
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The Twitter staff numbers under 30 people — which makes the impact of the social media platform all the more surprising. A simple, open tool with a tiny feature set – mobile enabled — flexible. It has spawned all types of support projects, from twitpic to twibble to TweetDeck. Al Gore uses it (of course, didn’t he invent the internet?) and most recently Oprah. It is catching on. And while I resisted in the past, since making the plunge I am finding all sorts of benefits.
What is it about Apple’s iPhone that makes it the one always in the news? The phrase iPhoneU rolls off the tongue, but BlackberryU? Falls flat. Maybe it is something like iPhones are from Venus, the others are from Mars. One is engineered, one is designed? Whatever it is, in the role of picking/developing applications for a community it is important to look for that Apple mojo in the solution.
What better way to while away a rainy Sunday than making up a big ‘ole batch of ginger beer! Standard store-bought imitations will pale in comparison — at least if the bottles don’t explode first!
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