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Written By: Sol Young on July 24, 2008 2 Comments

The new WordPress iPhone app is quite nice. Very clean integration. Seamless, but support for post plugins like Flickr images seem to be a problem.

It’s a great new world when we can blog and participate, without limitation, from a pocketable handset.

The pic is a snap of my N82 here at a diner over …

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Written By: Sol Young on July 10, 2008 No Comment

I picked up the Nokia N82 yesterday from Import GSM, a great hybrid brick-and-mortage / online store. Think Dynamism for phones. It was my first visit, right at closing, and despite trying to get stuff out the door for the evening shipment the guys helped out with descriptions and subtle nuances between the …

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Written By: Sol Young on July 6, 2008 No Comment

Watch this walking tour of the Washington DC Newseum. My new favorite museum!

This video was a fun experiment in video blogging.

Tools used:
Canon SD-1000, 640×480 @ 30fps
iMovie
Viddler for commenting (uploading to other services for comparison)…

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Written By: Sol Young on June 29, 2008 6 Comments

Chris Bilson (@cbilson) had a good description regarding my post about Twitter’s scaling/architecture challenge.

Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte tweet at the same time = crossing the streams”

I dunno if Proton Packs have exponential load challenges, but the end result for a server can feel similar. Is my post I …

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Written By: Sol Young on June 28, 2008 No Comment

Thanks to new Twitter user @waileacapital for posting about a British woman, Roz Savage attempting to row across the Pacific (she rowed across the Atlantic already). If she succeeds she will be the first woman to complete the journey.

Roz blogs on a daily basis during a trip at http://rozsavage.com/blog. Her main site is …

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Written By: Sol Young on June 27, 2008 4 Comments

Twitter has been having all kinds of scaling challenges. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts on the subject. Dave Winer pushed an idea for a decentralized Twitter (and has since admitted the power of Twitter is in its centrality). There is a single, simple, reason for Twitter’s challenges – Math is …

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Written By: Sol Young on June 26, 2008 No Comment

MCCXXIII

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Last night I headed down to MCCXXIII, a club at 1223 NW. Connecticut, for a DC Social Media meetup. The meetup featured Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) as guests.

I’ve been following Scoble more than usual this week, as he’s come to DC to interview politicians and …

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Written By: Sol Young on June 22, 2008 4 Comments

Was just updating the MyBlogLog services tab (not my most liked service, but it has a good listing)…

Here’s a breakdown of the sites and social networks I frequent. Numbers indicate my personal value (10 being daily use and highly valuable and 1 being a land-grabbed account and following the service’s popularity). Plus (+) indicates …

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Written By: Sol Young on May 4, 2008 5 Comments

I ran Philadelphia’s Broad Street run, a 10-mile race today, while carrying an iPhone, making calls, checking Twitter, and taking and posting pics. I chronicled the day with Twitter, Utterz, Flickr, and TwitPic. I used Snapture, iFlickr, and SendPics iPhone apps.

Quick Links to the streams:

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Written By: Sol Young on May 3, 2008 No Comment

Hand Painted Twitter Shirt

After a few months of preparing for the Broad Street 10-miler, it’s now the night before and pre-race excitement is setting in. iofy‘s new office in the Navy Yard of Philadelphia is a block away from the finish line, so this will be a pretty nice way to finish a race. There are …

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