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I think the very first icon I clicked on my iPhone was the one for the App Store. After all the hype for the App Store, I wanted to know exactly what ELSE I could be doing with the phone besides what Apple intended.
Available through both the iPhone as well as the iTunes Store, the apps are sorted into categories for easier browsing, as well as other lists such as most recently added and most downloaded. Prices are clearly marked, [...]

Do you consider your interactions on social networking sites to be private?
Amanda Hudson is suing six U.K. newspapers based on the assumption that whatever happens on Bebo (or, by extension, other social networks) should stay on Bebo after a story her 15-year-old concocted and posted to the site was picked up by several newspapers. The big problem? Hudson's daughter's story involved underaged drinking, a visit from the police, and her mother punching her, which Hudson claims never happened. That didn't [...]

… and all I got was this bricked iPhone.
You may have heard something or other about a phone that got released today? I didn't even go stand in line, bad tech blogger that I am, but my husband gleefully stood in line for nearly four hours to get his phone, and surprised me with one (even after my well-documented complaints) as well thanks to the largesse of a gift certificate that had been planned for the pre-3G phone pricing.
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Final Update: Thanks to Steven Hodson for cobbling together an MP3 even with the multiple technical issues. It's available on Talkshoe and iTunes, or you can listen to it right here:

Updated: Sorry about the technical issues, everyone! We still have no idea what happened with Talkshoe, but we managed a Skype call with broadcast to Ustream as a kludged solution. I'll post the recording as soon as we (more like Steven Hodson) get it all glued together [...]

There's another side of social media, and some of us were unfortunate enough to have witnessed it tonight.
Louis Gray has already written about the events that occurred during a Yahoo! Live broadcast with Wayne Sutton and Corvida. I was only there for part of it after seeing a Tweet from Louis and logging in as quickly as I could look up my rarely-used Yahoo password.
There's some analogy here to a stone being thrown into a pond and the ripples [...]

Yesterday was probably one of the most surreal days I've had in almost 15 years online, by far. I'd been talking to Louis Gray about doing some guest posting on his blog, and had a cute little story that I didn't feel fit in anywhere else, so I wrote it up for his blog as my first guest appearance. It was a cute little story about how I used Seesmic to get my toddler to bed the night before, [...]

Allen Stern has an excellent video up today on Center Networks that highlights one of the most frustrating foundation issues I have with Web 2.0 and social media: for whatever reason, we seem to want to have a monarchy wherever we go.
In the U.S., we have a de facto monarchy created out of the entertainment industry. In the tech world, we have recreated that same A-list worship, which Allen points out.
What confuses me the most about the FriendFeed issue that [...]

I have read and re-read Judge Stanton's decision in the Google/Viacom suit more times than I really should have. At first, I was as outraged as everyone else, assuming that Judge Stanton was one more government figure without a clue how the Internet even works.
So I called my mother, who works in the courts, and ran it by her, and she pointed out two things to me: one, any Judge has a stable full of much younger and savvier law [...]

For those of you who missed it, the very first episode of Things You Can't Say About the Internet is here for your listening pleasure. Most of us did a good job keeping our adult language use to a minimum, and discussion topics included Twitter clones, FriendFeed and democratization of meme tracking, why everyone should have a full feed for those reading via a feedreader, and then some rambling about user privacy concerns.

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