What If Apple Has Sold Fewer Than 1 Million iPhones?

I'm a bit sad about this news, reported here,

What If Apple Has Sold Fewer Than 1 Million iPhones

AT&T (T) announced today that it had only activated 146,000 Apple (AAPL) iPhones the first day that they were on sale. And, investment bank CIBC said that sales of the handset have slowed considerably in the last 10 days. CIBC said that AT&T Wireless stores had plenty of supply and little traffic. The research call explains that customers are disappointed with Apple's connection speed. It goes on to speculate that Apple and AT&T may be rushing to get out a 3G device by Christmas. If the information is accurate, it means that the quarter that will be reported about 90 days from now could be a significant disappointment, and that eyes will be on Apple's earnings report this week for info on how the device has sold in July. Douglas A. McIntyre

Especially cos my friend and former team lead, Ed Schepis, is not gonna reach his objectives on his fantastic website, OneMillionIphones

iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications

 Just a confirmation of what I wrote some weeks (month? can't remember!) about bye bye Java on the phones, the Java ME failure and how cool is the iPhone. Actually more than one friend of mine told me to change the domain, I'm thinking on...
iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCO—June 11, 2007—Apple® today announced that its revolutionary iPhone™ will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhone’s capabilities without compromising its reliability or security.

An unuseful web 2.0 tool... But...

Twitter is a WEB 2.0 web application, after registering you have an account and you can write what you are doing, so your friends (well, let's say everybody in this world) will know what the hell are you doing... It's actually well done, with an RSS interface, integration with IM, can be used from a phone (only US at the moment), a Mac OS application and a widget exist already and it has some public REST api to call... Can be useful to track what is doing one resource in a team, especially on distributed agile teams.. Don't you think? Even if it was designed for stealing your privacy!!! And... Not a beta for this time...

When the web goes semantic...

Thanks to Mara I've discovered this nice website, http://musicovery.com/, where you can choose the music depending on your mood (more or less energetic, positive, calm or dark) and also based on years... In few worlds this "simple" application is matching the metadata of the songs with your choice... Web 2.0, semantic web, nice. Ah of course is yet another beta, indeed! 2.1!

they call it web 2.0

I call it juice. When the effort is really minimum (i.e. you don't waste more than 5 minutes, you click only 2-3 times) and you produce something like this:
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This is Web 2.0 Juice. I've installed some time ago the iScrobbler app on my Mac, now I'm happy to share my listening on last.fm. [hei windows user, don't worry, looks like there's also a client for windows...] What other Web 2.0 Juice? Flickr, I love especially the "send to blog" functionality: very easy and immediate. I like a lot Gmail and I use it a lot, with Mac Mail, from the web, from wap, from their good MIDlet. I still didn't found any other so good service like the above ones and since there's no sharing/communities ideas behind Gmail the good 2.0 juice are only last.fm and flickr. Now I understand why is called 2.0, they are only in 2 :-D Important update! The iScrobbler link is wrong, it points to the old iScrobbler project, the updated, correct one is this: the version here is the 1.2.1, this works! Thanks to Luca for the double check.

Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air

Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air So you have a great idea that you want to turn into the Next Big Thing? Well, jump aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon! The momentum that's building behind web applications means there's never been a better time to start reaping the rewards of your hard work. Wait! Hard work? Not interested in hard work? Don't have the time to put in all those late nights fixing bugs and adding killer features? Then this article is for you. We'll show you how to go from idea to well-funded application without writing any code at all. Thought that all you had to do was add "Beta" to your product for it to be successful? Not true! In today's climate it's possible to arrange first-round venture capital funding and get your flavour-of-the-month web app snapped up by Yahoo! before you even reach beta. We call this Getting Rich.