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Since late last week, there’s been an echo-chamber, mini-buzz around a new “micro-blogging” service called Identica.
Usually, I’m quite weary of such buzz. For instance, you won’t see me write about a service that starts with the letter “P” and ends with “urk” because there’s no “there there.” Even though I used BrightKite for a few [...]

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Twitter’s not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? By listening to me.
Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to lead in the P2P mobile payments space. They can become the next PayPal, and are more [...]

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I bought an iPhone a month ago and I love it. Let’s start with that.
But don’t anyone think for a moment that I’m not keeping tabs on the pluses and minuses.
The first big, big minus I have to share is the fact that there’s no interface on my computer to use the phone while it’s [...]

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The Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Verizon is opening their network to all CDMA phones and any apps which want to run on those phones.
Not to brag, but this is what I called when I wrote “The Carrier Coup” back in June.
In that post, I explained that “Safari as the iPhone SDK” was a [...]

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Take 40 minutes and watch (or listen to, in the background) this interview of John Doerr — the VC extraordinaire, futurist, and self-proclaimed geek.
The interview, hosted by John Battelle, ranges from Google, to green tech, to the “immersive web,” and the politics around the wireless spectrum auction.
Enjoy:

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UPDATE: I just got another “tip” to “Invite your friends! Send ‘invite 212-555-1212′”. These tips are just tips.
A few days ago I was rocketed to TechCrunch and CNET fame when Charlie O’Donnell posted a screenshot (here and below) of a message from Caroline McCarthy to me about our “vaporband” TheSAC (Silicon Alley Cats).
But that’s not [...]

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I would have Twittered this question, but it seems as though good ol’ Twitter is having troubles today. 500 and 404 messages all over the place.
Anyone know what’s up?

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5 days to find three ways to unlock the iPhone.
moconews has the round-up here.
I’m most interested the 4th, not yet successful way:
– The fourth one, from UK, where Belfast, U.K.-based Uniquephones says its engineers are working around the clock in several countries andare close to cracking the complex security system. They even have a site [...]

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Some people are doing a fantastic job explaining the iPhone hype, but I think there’s a huge piece missing in all this analysis (otherwise, I’d stay shut-up on the exhausted matter).
The iPhone is a big deal because of the Safari as the SDK announcement.
Until now, carriers ruled their devices with tyrannical control, stifling innovation at [...]

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I’m spending my Saturday night reviewing a WAP development proposal for one of my clients, and any such work gets me thinking about how screwy the whole mobile system is here in the USA, much to the fault of the carriers.
But as I sit here watching ESPN, I see a commercial for their ESPN mobile [...]

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