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BlackBerry 8800 - Hi, I’m Sol

July 5th, 2008 ·

Hey, I’d like my phone back. If you found it, please do the right thing and email phone@solyoung.com or ship it.

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Tags: BlackBerry · Viddler · Video · solyoung.com

Integrate an announcement service (Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku) in your next release

March 23rd, 2008 ·

As developers, if you’re building services your customers can share, you need to plan on announcement integration.
I keep thinking back to February when I wanted a better way to integrate Twitter. Others wonder about Twitter being a source of lost content, as Cartoon Barry describes well. If a visitor is on my site I want [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Etiquette · Jaiku · Pownce · Prediction · Toilet · solyoung.com

Back to the iPhone

February 2nd, 2008 ·

A while back I wrote about switching to the BlackBerry 8800. The long route to that BlackBerry was because I wasn’t entirely happy with the iPhone - it was just a glorified phone/iPod when released. Now that Google Mail supports IMAP IDLE, 3rd party apps are running, and the 1.1.3 update can be used on my preferred T-Mobile (with [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry · Blogging · iPhone · solyoung.com

Photographs on solyoung.com

January 18th, 2008 ·

A quick note: All photographs on solyoung.com, unless advertising for another site or service, were taken by myself or someone I know while I was with them. What you see here and in the Flickr feed(s) are where I/we’ve been.

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solyoung.com updated…

January 14th, 2008 ·

Moved off of Google Pages to a site with all the programming goodies. Already tied it in with the BlackBerry 8800, Twitter, and Flickr.

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Tags: Blogging · solyoung.com