µblog - archive for 2007-07 🏳️‍🌈

Eating a carb/sugar-laden cookie and drinking instant. This is in preparation for a shopping outing, and I can’t drink as I’m driving :P

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where the hell is the Facebook IM interface?

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back from the hypermarché

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Sun comes up, it’s Monday morning… the 3 beers I had yesterday are making themselves reminded.

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Safely back home

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got HP7, 180 SEK in the local bookshop, no queue. Got one for the fantasy-lovin’ in-laws too.

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Hitting the sack, driving to Halland tomorrow. Planning to stay offline, may tweet via mobile.

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I’ve gotten sucked into Facebook, and so far it looks like it has the right mix of stringentness and openness to make a succesful social network.

Stringentness in that there’s a good deal of reciprocity in who you add as friends, and openness in that you can hook other stuff in (Twitter, last.fm, Flickr etc.)

I’d like the following:

• RSS feeds for notifications (Frank tells me that it exists, but if I can’t find it after looking for 30 seconds, it might as well not exist…)
• some sort of IM integration. Twitter is great in that way.

Basically I’d like to interact to web apps in 2 ways: via RSS (Bloglines) and IM (gtalk, ‘cos it’s the least closed system.) Visting a new web page isn’t really gonna do it for me. And email notifications? Please, it’s 2007. Keep email for the squares, let us young one’s get stuff the new way!

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6 1/2 hours to go

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4 hours to go!

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1.5 hours to go!

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The Vacation Starts NOW

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a nice meal with 4/5 of the family at the local pasta place

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2 days to go!

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testing the facebook twitter app

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Facebook: where’s the RSS?

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trying to access my ancient email account via POP3

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spray.se sucks giant rotten donkey balls

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so far this day sucks

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4 days left until vacation

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just got a call from the camera store, my D40 has been repaired!

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signing in to Meebo for the first time in a long while

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social networks are just forums writ large

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Today the house sale will be finalised!

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1 load of crap to go until the house is empty

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There’s a lot of hot air in the States about “unlocking” the iPhone. For me, and for everyone else in Europe, unlocking means getting the device to work with an operator other than AT&T.

However, the recent efforts are concerned with crippling the phone, by providing invalid data to the activation process so that you can use the music player and WiFi, but not GSM voice and data.

You’re essentially getting a $600 iPod Nano with WiFi and a touchscreen. Yawn. Wake me up when we get some real unlocking.

What this illustrates is the chasm between Apple’s image and AT&T’s. People are somehow convinced that AT&T subtracts value from the device, sullying the pureness of Apple’s vision. I think AT&T needs to think long and hard about how they got into this position, and what they can do to get out.

Update 2007-07-05: this article has a pretty good overview about what’s involved in unlocking the iPhone.

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ah, Monday

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