Monday, July 28, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-28

by alec on July 28, 2008

whoever coined the name pig weed got it seriously wrong. How about “stubborn as a mule and impossibly difficult to pull out weed” instead? #
http://twurl.nl/o4nf6r — this week’s SquawkBox schedule. #
Thankin’ my lucky stars that my my iphone has returned from brickdom. It was a close call. #
@mdufort upgraded my 1.1.4 unlocked iphone to 2.0 and unlocked ot. Took a couple of tries to get it right. WinPWN is not well documented. #
cosseting myself in the basement to watch movies with the kids. tweet you later! #
Thank you Dan, Carl and David: For three weeks of July I played hookie. Janice and I, plus our kids, w.. http://tinyurl.com/62h3qk #
Twitter Updates for 2008-07-27: Twitter Updates for 2008-07-26: Twitter Updates for 2008-07-25: Twitter.. http://tinyurl.com/5ajvct #
http://tinyurl.com/5ttv2a to join us at 11 AM on the SquawkBox – From http://www.hictu.com/topic.php?mid=75268 #
iPhone 3G giveaway from Hictu! http://tinyurl.com/5u45ux #
iPhone 2.0? or 1.1.5 plus a store.: Image via Wikipedia I returned from vacation last week, hopeful tha.. http://tinyurl.com/6jpd65 #
@missrogue blistering hot Ontario summer here in Ottawa. #
!$title$!: !$text$! http://tinyurl.com/5zn7ot #
@mjgraves that’s very odd… wonder what happened there.. #
Squawk Box July 28: First topic — Facebook Connect launched last week. It lets you add Facebook identi.. http://tinyurl.com/5agmg5 #
sipgate vs. T-Mobile Round II http://tinyurl.com/6zxf9q #
Techdirt: MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening http://techdirt.com/articles/20080728/1012151810 … #
@mathewi me. #

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Squawk Box July 28

by alec on July 28, 2008

Image via Wikipedia

It’s Monday the 28th of July, and we’re back for another SquawkBox.

First topic — Facebook Connect launched last week. It lets you add Facebook identity to any web site. It’s a bit like OpenID, but with the backing of Facebook. Plus, it has the ability for you to populate your Facebook news stream with data from that site, and for applications that aren’t part of Facebook to access your social graph.

Is this a good idea? Or is it a privacy busting virus from the folks that brought you beacon? Our consensus was that it was probably a good idea. Facebook is distributing apps across the social graph, and that can only be good for everybody.

We also discussed the talk last week that iPhone was for the Rich, and Android for the masses. Show us the phones, we said. Even so, we believe that Android will be a success, and will change the dynamic of the phone industry. Listen to the call to learn why.

And lastly we chatted about Cuil, the new search engine that launched last night. A couple of folks had tried it. Pluses: The layout is nice, as is the related items feature. Minuses: the index isn’t as complete as it could be yet.

What would it take to really beat Google at this game, though? Or maybe Cuil’s strategy is simply an exit to Microsoft.

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iPhone 2.0? or 1.1.5 plus a store.

July 28, 2008

Image via Wikipedia I returned from vacation last week, hopeful that someone had unlocked iPhone 2.0 in my absence. While it hadn’t been done on Monday or Tuesday, by Wednesday, the iPhone dev team had released their pwnage tool, which patches an Apple released image, and loads it onto an existing generation 1 iPhone. By [...]

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