Does anybody else find it funny that Yuil, a demo made by a VP of Yahoo! to show off the Y!’s BOSS Search APIs, is supposed to be a parody of Cuil which in turn is supposed to be a Google-killer, is actually hosted on Google’s App Engine?
English majors, feel free to lambast me on my grammar in that last sentence.
Last Friday, at TC’s Mobile Wars, a couple AdMobsters and I were in attendance. Somewhere between the angry audience spectrum guy and Arrington looking up from his iPhone, my co-worker Josh was Twinkling around the room. He apparently struck up a conversation with a fellow audience member, Laura and they decided to meet up with each other.
All this is unbeknownst to me but soon after, while I was waiting in line for the August Capital after-party, Josh comes up and tells me that he met some guy named Joe Hewitt and that I might know him. Joe Hewitt? The Joe Hewitt? Mr. Firebug?
Josh offered to introduce us and, like a giddy school girl, I said, “HELL YES!” So we did. Nice guy that Joe is. We chatted about some iPhone stuff, firebug, webkit animations for a bit. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to ask him about Parakey and what Facebook ended up doing with it.
Maybe next time…
We launched our AdMob iPhone ad units, developer contest, and publisher network. Shortly, if I can figure out if the webkit portion of the SDK is under NDA or not, I’ll be posting a postmortem on. If you watch the video below, you can see we did some amazing javascript and css stuff.
Until we launch…… Update soon.
I just downloaded the Wordpress iPhone app and I’m tapping out a post on it right now. I mean if some of the best selling literature in japan is tapped out on mobile phones surely I can post to my blog on an iPhone!
Actually to be painfully honest it’s horrible. Apple seriously needs to open up the bluetooth and data ports on this thing. Bluetooth keyboard would simply kill all other devices put there. TechCrunch wants to build a cheap tablet pc? Why bother? And I would post a link to the rumor that Apple will release a Mac Touch but, yup, that’s right, no cut and paste.
Imagine also a joystick/pad peripheral… The iphone instantly becomes a killer gaming machine that out matches Nintendo DS and Sony PSP combined.
Besides the obvious physical keyboard and cut and paste, here’s a list of annoyances…
I finally converted to an iPhone (even lack of a physical keyboard, cut and paste, easy mass delete, mms .. but that’s another topic). I went for the 8GB because I don’t watch video and like the fact that less storage means I’m forced to be picky on what music I travel with.
However, I still think 8GB is too much thanks to Pandora. This morning I drove to work with my iPhone plugged into my car adapter listening to Pandora all the way. In fact a co-worker of mine said he has yet to listen to his MP3s on his iPhone, instead opting for the unpredictability of Pandora. Genius. Looking at the stats and such I’m not alone.
What does this have to do with Sirius and satellite radio? Well the connection is not hard, Sirius should stop R&D efforts on radios/handhelds and run Sirius over next gen cell phones. Making streaming equipment is far less cheaper than making car stereos and investing in satellites.