Sol Young

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 lunch.

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On June 28th, 2007 I waited in line for the iPhone (and spent 3 days talking to AT&T to get it activated). The experience was a good one… The stench of rotten trash from a nearby McDonalds dumpster and seeing a full-grown man get beaten by his girlfriend and her purse for spending the $500 [...]

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Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]

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I’ve been using FriendFeed and del.icio.us more and more lately. Viigo (one of the best mobile RSS experiences available) has direct push to del.icio.us. It’s far superior to the iPhone’s mobile Google Reader sharing experience, so I’ve been happily consuming and sharing.
But FriendFeed isn’t updating these del.icio.us posts. It would be understandable if everything [...]

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Apple iPhone vs. Nokia N82, or complimentary citizens
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That’s it! Twice in a week I’ve been left with a dead iPhone from snapping pics and pushing them live at an event or outing. Don’t get me wrong; I love the iPhone for most everything, but the lack of a swappable battery is adding some [...]

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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:

Flickr Photostream
Twitter
Utterz

My plan was to Twitter my progress and TwitPic/Flickr the [...]

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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 showers and [...]

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