News Items 7/24

Several interesting items today: Twitter in USA Today – you know it’s mainstream when it’s in USA Today. And, a blog post on Everything You Need to Know About Twitter from Social Media Today. We talked about Facebook’s new strategy with Facebook Connect to play nice with the rest of the Web. Zuckerberg discussed at […]

Lively, iPhone and Congress on Twitter

The Silicon Valley Insider details the differences between Google’s Lively and Second Life.  Mainly, no sex in Lively.  It’s the PG virtual world. This Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn just won’t go away, and it gets uglier by the minute. NY Times had two views of Apple on the same page. One was very complimentary about the efficiency of […]

iPhone line in SF

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjgE3ltXU68] Looks like it wasn’t quite as hot there.

Lively, Vista, iPhone, and YouTube Ads

At the beginning of class today, I relayed the story of one of my students from last semester and her quest for a job.  I hope she’ll be blogging about it soon on WebPubNET, but basically she was successful in securing employment for working a personal network. She made a point to come to a […]

This week's interesting items

Here’s a quick rundown of some things I found interesting this week: Here’s a neat iPhone timeline Great article from Mashable on How to Live Blog a Conference.  Good tips, definitely something I will discuss with my classes next time we do a project like that. Article from Forbes.com and what will happen to Apple […]

Watch the Video

Now, if you want to see the video of the WWDC Keynote, it’s here.

And just like that, 3G iphone is here:

These images were on the Apple Store within minutes of Jobs finishing the keynote: Features: as expected 3G service – did lots of comparisons, Jobs actually called it “amazingly zippy.” Longer battery life GPS Lower price!!! $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB, plus 16GB avail in white But no video, camcorder capabilities. Why?!! And, not […]