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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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Emotions make social networks meaningful

by Andy DeSoto on June 9, 2008

A few minutes ago I sat down at my computer, opened my browser, loaded Plurk, and planned to write a short update about how I wasn’t feeling particularly cheery at that moment. But then I paused. “Wait a minute, Andy,” I thought, “is this the place to be getting personal? Is Plurk the vehicle to be getting detailed about why I haven’t had a great evening?” I shook my head, decided against it, and posted to Pownce instead.

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Opening Day 2008

by Andy DeSoto on April 1, 2008

I took a quick trip home this weekend to attend the Washington Nationals’ opening day game (Nationals: 3, Atlanta: 2) in brand new Nationals Park.

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