Have you seen the latest commercial from Apple for the iPhone. IT goes on… there’s never been an iPod that can do this…” and then shows browsing photos, looking at contacts, looking at your music and videos, and finally, making a call. But, there’s also never been an iPod that will cost a user more than $2240 to use it for a minimal 2 year contract period! (based on $600 price tag for 8GB model, $200 contract buyout that a typical customer will pay to get out of a contract with another carrier and jump to AT&T, and $60 month iPhone contract). Is there an SDK for this thing yet??
Archives for July 25, 2007
There’s never been an iPod that can…
Have you seen the latest commercial from Apple for the iPhone. IT goes on… there’s never been an iPod that can do this…” and then shows browsing photos, looking at contacts, looking at your music and videos, and finally, making a call. But, there’s also never been an iPod that will cost a user more than $2240 to use it for a minimal 2 year contract period! (based on $600 price tag for 8GB model, $200 contract buyout that a typical customer will pay to get out of a contract with another carrier and jump to AT&T, and $60 month iPhone contract). Is there an SDK for this thing yet??
The ideal mashup – social networking + sexual predator database – MyPredatorSpace!
I Caught wind of in interesting story on CNN this AM and it got me thinking about a fabulous idea for a mashup… perhaps even an “internal” mashup to be put in place by the likes of MySpace, Facebook, Match.com etc… how about mashing the social network with state and county court records information or existing Sexual Predator mashups in order to mash a user profile with a record that shows that him or her is a recorded sexual predator? Seems that social network sites are likely a very ripe playground for these potential abusers so imagine how cool it would be to flag someone’s MySpace account with a little code or icon identifying them as a potential predator! Given that there’s public records widely available flagging those with criminal records this would indeed be a welcomed service for those users of the popular networking resources. A great example of a predator database built by accessing public records is the Florida Sexual Predators mashup – see details at http://www.gisuser.com/index.php?option=com_akogallery&Itemid=97&func=detail&id=249