Today I am very glad that I am not such a Fan boy of Apple. On Twitter all I have heard about are the following:

• ibrick
• “Checked 2 AT&T stores… lines were about 50 deep at both. Not bad, but I’m not gonna go outta my way.” via @kiddisco
• “Quick, someone make an iPhone fail whale!” via @steverubel
• Apple’s iPhone 2.0 update is failing (Matt Asay/The Open Road) http://tinyurl.com/5mjjhw via@Techmeme
• “@jasonegan #apple. My phone is essentially bricked since the Apple Store is having problems and I can’t complete the restore process” @omomyid
• “iBrick is one of the top words on Twitter today. Deja vous. http://summize.com/search?q=iBrick” via @steverubel
• “Glad I CAN’T get a new iPhone today. Must wait for the latest unlock/jailbreak app before I can even upgrade to 2.0. No rush. T-Mobile FTW!” @clintus

Besides @rustybrick and @photoboy via Twitter, I cant recall a single good thing about today + Apple + AT&T + iphone.

Happy Friday!!!

UPDATE…

So here we are on Saturday and the iphone chatter has not died down. The funny part is that most of it is still negative. Oops Apple/AT&T did it again.

• “I tell ya . . . this single computer synch thing with the iPhone is really annoying. Especially since I 1st synched it with my work comp.” @BrentDPayne
• ” burlingame iphone wait: 3-4 hours…is it really worth waiting for?…guess I could just put in the 3G card & work while hanging out…hmmm” @TonyAdam
• “@coplandmj For me, it isn’t even the price. It’s the fact that they aren’t waiting for something that has any unique value that is finite.” @GregBoser
• ” Retweeting @coplandmj: Favourite this tweet if you’re reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally sick of hearing about iPhones.” @GregBoser
• ” Two hour line for iPhones at my local mall.” @steverubel

To be fair I thought I would post some positives about the iphone but found very few. I had to go all the way back to page 9 to find just this one:

• ” Holy jeebus these iPhone apps are rad!” @missrogue

Glad I didnt camp out to get one

Read more...Today is a good day (for non-iphone owners)

Another day, another Twitter Application. TweetDeck is built much like Twirl in that it is build on the Adobe Air platform, but little else appears to be the same.

TweetDeck has all of the same options you can get in the web version of Twitter, or in applications such as Twirl, Twitterfox, or a Twitterlicious. You can Re-tweet, Direct Message, and Reply to anyone of your friends. It is missing the “Save to Faves” functionality at this time but I imagine that it will be added at some point.

TweetDeck does some have some great features that you may be interested however:

Read more...TweetDeck Review

I constantly sign-up for Betas and Alphas and usually Im let down. I know that its a Beta/Alpha but I just dont see a use for many of the products I look at. Times when I do see promise, they are so far from being scalable and full featured that I simply move on to the next “great” thing. Im not sure where Evri.com fits with my past Beta looks but I have liked what Ive seen so far.

People, Places, and Things

On the “main page” you get the option to view by People, Places and Things but that is it. Where is the search? I like how you show me what is popular but I want what I want. Perhaps a directory or something would be an option if they are trying to silo people to only look at “main topics”.

Read more...Evri Review

Yes I said it.

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Why you ask? If a site requires a user to visit it…. and you cant. It sucks. If a website screws up your order what do you do? You shop somewhere else. If you click to read a review and you get an error what do you do? You hit the back button. So why do we put up with it? Perhaps Loren knows.

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Plurk, Seesmic all have (or had) serious down time and outages. I could list more but they all know who they are. How can people join in on the conversation and participate when you are cut off mid sentence? There is nothing like writing an msg/post/anything only to get some lovely 500 internal server error message.

How do any of these services expect to go mainstream and grow? *Yes I know Facebook and Myspace is “main stream” but you get my point.

Services need to stay in Alpha or Beta or AlphaBeta longer and stress test their systems more. So for that next service out there that is “going to change the world”. Go slow, work out your issues, make sure your servers can take a beating and THEN slowly let us bring your service down.

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Read more...Web 2.0 Sucks

It has been quite some time since I had time to blog - and even now I dont have time. I still thought I should try and keep you updated (even if way late) of some great links I have found on Twitter. Over the past few weeks I have spent some time in San Fran, Boston, and here and there - always keeping me super busy. Even as I write this, I am on vacation in Boston and really should be sleeping. So without further delay - I present the newest Link Find.

All Twitter Finds

1. @chriswinfield Link: Microsoft Gives Up Earning Your Loyalty; Launches “Cashback” to Bribe You Instead
2. @kdpaine Link: KDPaine’s PR Measurement Blog: How many different types of conversation are there?
3. @kid_disco Link: The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Conditional Tags | Theme Lab
4. @msaleem Link: Dembot - Twitter Down Art Collection
5. @chiropractic Link: CIMG3305 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
6. @leeodden Link: Trendrr - Track Compare Share
7. @lisabarone Link: Bruceclay.com - My College President Kills Kittens!
8. @problogger Link: TwitPic - Share photos on twitter
9. @andybeal Link: Cre8pc on Usability & Holistic SEO Angry? Destroy Their Reputation Online!
10. @leeodden Link: Twitter Alerts - TweetBeep.com
11. @jdersh Link: June Dershewitz on Web Analytics: eMetrics Recap in 100 Words
12. @webmama Link: eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Error 404 Page Not Found
13. @gapingvoid Link: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
14. @Omomyid Link: eMetrics Twitter Backchannel Analysis » Instant Cognition

Read more...Twitter Link Find V19