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iPhone, back and better than ever

Posted by Chris under Apple, GPS, Social Networking, Technology, iPhone

Think yesterday was a big day for Apple with all of the WWDC announcements. It certainly was but perhaps it was a bigger day on the blogosphere and the web. Why, well let’s start with taking a look at Google and see what we get, as of this morning:

iPhone 2.0 10,500,000
iPhone 2.0 applications 41,900,00

And that’s just Google. The webchatter was at a froth on sites like MacRumors and of course fanboy sites like Gizmodo and Engadget kept their head to head competition going via their WWDC reporting.

But lost in some of this is a deeper look at the applications and some of the features. I for one am really excited about GPS for the iPhone. Having been using a blackberry curve for a while I love the GPS and applications like FindMe, NeoSistec’s CarFinder and of course the driving app like TeleAtlas. I’m expecting this to go to the next level with the iPhone.

For example it’s rumored that TomTom is ready to roll their software on the new iPhone (via Engadget Mobile). Being a huge fan of TomTom, since my Father-in-law got one in the UK years ago, that to me is a great indication of good things to come on the iPhone. Like better location based social networking, as if BrightKite wasn’t sort of weird enough.

More to come I’m sure.

WWDC a day for connections

Posted by Chris under Apple, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter, iPhone

The anticipation is ________ me. So today’s the day for the Apple faithful, it’s WWDC and this one is going to be a special one, or so the rumors say. But one change from when I went to WWDC in years past is the numerous ways you can stay on top of the announcements.

Right, I know you want to find out first about the 3G iPhone, OSX 10.6 and maybe more or maybe none of those things. You just don’t know at a show by Steve.

But what I do know is that twitter is already preparing for an overload and has shut down some key functions. I’m still following folks on Twitter but we’ll see if it can stay live during the whole event.

So what’s a Mac fanboy to do.

Well there’s always summize, which searches Twitter in real time (but again relying on twitter). There is the threat/promise of people using Plurk which actually would work very well for an event. The timeline making it easy to follow the flow.

And of course the old and new media outlets will be posting on blogs and even live video, see the links below.

Social networking connects us beyond the what I’m doing into the what I’m interested in now. Connections will be made today, I’m sure I might find a twitterati I don’t follow who does a great succient capture of the presentation today. And well, that’s what this space is all about.

cnet
mac rumors
digital lifestyle

Got some great places/people to catch the announcements let me know and post them in the comments