PodTech’ers review iPhone on TwitterGram
Hmmm, I like TwitterGram. It can only be 200kb in size, so you only have somewhere around 30 seconds to record a little message. Product reviews done this short force people to get to the point. I asked James McCormick, our COO at PodTech, to give us his thoughts on his new iPhone (he got it yesterday).
Anyway, I just put a bunch of cool stuff on my link blog. Tried to keep the number of iPhone items down there.
UPDATE: Paul Sherer, PodTech’s business development manager, was in line on Friday and got an iPhone. So here’s his TwitterGram review of the iPhone.
UPDATE2: Got some more TwitterGram reviews from employees and people hanging out at PodTech.
Sam Levin, director of social media here, talks about iPhone and admits he’s a case fanatic.
Patrick Scoble gives his thoughts on his “iPhone case” which really looks like a condom. Pretty ugly.
I still need to get Maryam, Valerie, and a few others who’ve gotten iPhones. Rocky got an iPhone but refuses to open it. — says he’s going to keep it as a collector’s item. What a weirdo! :-)
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July 3rd, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I’m afraid I hate TwitterGram. I am getting message after message from you which is content-free and provides no means to decide if I am interested in the link it includes. Not that I can listen to them anyway since they arrive as SMS on my phone. I’ll have to reluctantly drop you from my contact list on Twitter if they keep arriving.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Simon: I’m probably going to open a separate Twitter account for my TwitterGrams.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Or you could try the far more accessible LouderTweets text mini-reviews that we put together a few weeks back. We also have LouderViesti for Jaiku users.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:17 pm
I hate to do this, but I will buy this to replace my RAZR.
http://www.openmoko.org http://www.openmoko.com
It’s about the same price as the iPhone, except it’s programmable and comes with a debugger. Trolltech released it’s greenphone last year, but it was anything but free (QT).
As Linux is to PC users, Linux based open phones will be to telecom. The price can only go down from here. I read that they cracked the root and user pass for the iPhone, it was alpine or something, but there is no shell to reprogram it with. I guess they removed the flash drive and hooked it up to a computer to get the shadow file out to dictionary crack it.
I really thought about this vs. the iPhone or N95, and I just like the idea of a no OS phone/no OS PC.
As for twittergram, I don’t see any new tech there.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:16 am
iPhone just not for me Part I:
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgormly/archive/2007/07/03/iphone-just-not-for-me.aspx
iPhone just not for me Part II:
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgormly/archive/2007/07/04/iphone-just-not-for-me-part-ii.aspx
July 4th, 2007 at 8:58 am
So, I hear the PodTech folks enjoying the email functionality - no issues with Exchange email at work? Curious how that was going…
July 4th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
You won’t think I’m such a wierdo when I get Steve Jobs to sign my unopened iPhone- My grandkids’ college fund in the making! IF I ever have any… that I know of… :-)
Rocky-
July 4th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Rocky: you’re signed into WordPress as me! Heheh.
July 4th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Deannie: so far so good. Just hooked it up and off we went. Maryam says email and calendar works great. Not sure about tasks or other things.
July 4th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Because stooooopid wordpress won’t let me post otherwise.
That’s why I sign it Rocky-
:-)
Rocky-
July 9th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Forget my last comment. In the spirit of experimentation, you can have your TwitterGram reviews indexed by our site LouderVoice.
Just add the Twitter user review as a friend and when you are uploading your TwitterGram, use this format for the title:
@review 5 Heroes TV Series. Audio:
So that’s
@review Rating-1-to-5 ReviewItem Period+Space AnyTextYouLikeButWordAudioMakesSense
Within 30 minutes that review can be found, rated, bookmarked and grouped over at LouderVoice with the link always going back to the Tweet.
Here’s an example of a Flock review.
Tweet via TwitterGram:
http://twitter.com/conoro/statuses/141281142
LouderVoice:
http://www.loudervoice.com/reviews/508652771
I’ll add some auto-tagging of those audio reviews with “twittergram” when I get a chance.
Hope you enjoy.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:02 am
In the spirit of experimentation, you can have your TwitterGram reviews indexed by our site LouderVoice.
Just add the Twitter user review as a friend and when you are uploading your TwitterGram, use this format for the title:
@review 5 Heroes TV Series. Audio:
So that’s
@review Rating-1-to-5 ReviewItem Period+Space AnyTextYouLikeButWordAudioMakesSense
Within 30 minutes that review can be found, rated, bookmarked and grouped over at LouderVoice with the link always going back to the Tweet.
Here’s an example of a Flock review.
Tweet via TwitterGram:
twitter.com/conoro/statuses/141281142
LouderVoice:
loudervoice.com/reviews/508652771
I’ll add some auto-tagging of those audio reviews with “twittergram” when I get a chance.
Hope you enjoy.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:28 am
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