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Barriers to the social mobile web

by Andy DeSoto on July 21, 2008

This past Friday, I was finally able to get Apple to take my entire summer’s savings for an iPhone. After a year of regretting that I had not jumped on the first generation model, I had no choice but to take the plunge when the opportunity offered itself with the iPhone 3G’s July 11th release.

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iPhone or no phone?

by Andy DeSoto on July 4, 2008

When the first-generation 2G iPhone was announced, I nabbed a 16GB iPod Touch. I’m not kidding when I say the gadget dramatically changed the way I went about everyday life on a college campus. Since Wi-Fi is basically ubiquitous on the William & Mary grounds, constant connectivity afforded by the Touch was able to untether me from desktops, libraries, and even my old and clunky IBM notebook.

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Socialthing! readies version 2.0

by Andy DeSoto on June 11, 2008

Slick. Sexy. Simple. Even in its first iteration, Socialthing! has been drawing a heap of attention ever since its inception last March at SXSW, a music and media convention. Although the service has eliminated more functionality than it’s added in the three months its been around, everything’s about to change for the better in just a few hours when version 2.0 is officially unveiled.

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